Gwenevere
Gwenevere was given to 42 girls in 2025, #3,600 among girls’ names; 1,199 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,130 Americans named Gwenevere and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gwenevere by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gwenevere?
#3,600 among girls’ names, 2025
Gwenevere fell from #3,313 in 2015 to #3,600 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 27.4 to 26.1 per million.
55 babies in 2019, the peak
Gwenevere peaked in 2019, when 55 girls were given it, #2,970 among girls’ names. The 42 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,600 | 26.1 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,603 | 26.5 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,794 | 24.9 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,787 | 24.4 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,351 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,464 | 27.2 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,970 | 32.8 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,306 | 28.2 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,110 | 30.1 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,346 | 27.1 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #3,313 | 27.4 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,868 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,031 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,242 | 19.9 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,864 | 22.2 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,333 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,601 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,188 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,649 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,678 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,679 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,413 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,399 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,551 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,384 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,080 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,229 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,540 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,356 | 3.4 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,485 | 3.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,799 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,559 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,707 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,855 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,921 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,843 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,919 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,021 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,035 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,454 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,726 | 10.9 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,180 | 15.3 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,777 | 9.9 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,673 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,420 | 11.4 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,791 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,186 | 12.7 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,414 | 11.0 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,761 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,815 | 8.2 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,270 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,518 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,944 | 3.5 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,440 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gwenevere a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gwenevere has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gwenevere: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gwenevere, and how old are they?
1,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,199 Americans ever recorded as Gwenevere. The median Gwenevere alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 837 people named Gwenevere (837 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 922 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 212 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 65 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 566 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,098 babies since 1880, Gwenevere is the most given (57% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 100 babies (42%), the second most given that year.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gwenevere | 1,199 | 42 | 2019 |
| Gwenivere | 811 | 51 | 2022 |
| Gweneviere | 88 | 7 | 2023 |
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gwenevere
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gwenevere and names like it
- Compare Gwenevere and GwenivereBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGwenevere peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gwenevere since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Gwenevere.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gwenevere alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.