Gwenivere
Gwenivere was given to 51 girls in 2025, #3,145 among girls’ names; 811 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gwenivere by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gwenivere?
#3,145 among girls’ names, 2025
Gwenivere rose from #5,029 in 2015 to #3,145 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 15.1 to 31.7 per million.
87 babies in 2022, the peak
Gwenivere peaked in 2022, when 87 girls were given it, #2,180 among girls’ names. The 51 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,145 | 31.7 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,422 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,655 | 41.1 |
| 2022 | 87 | #2,180 | 53.0 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,541 | 42.1 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,465 | 27.2 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,630 | 25.0 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,803 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,732 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,344 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,029 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,528 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,057 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,949 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,947 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,680 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,176 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,794 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,911 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,787 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,937 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,414 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,653 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,738 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,376 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,409 | 5.5 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,429 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gwenivere a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gwenivere has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gwenivere: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gwenivere, and how old are they?
An estimated 805 Americans named Gwenivere and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 452 people named Gwenivere (449 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 456 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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, Gwenivere is the second most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 100 babies (51%), the 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 Gwenivere
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 Gwenivere and names like it
- Compare Gwenivere and GwenevereBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGwenivere peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gwenivere since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Gwenivere.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gwenivere alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.