Gwenn
Gwenn was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 1,502 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Gwenn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 53 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gwenn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gwenn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,171, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
65 babies in 1955, the peak
Gwenn peaked in 1955, when 65 girls were given it, #1,256 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #16,171 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,099 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,200 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,355 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,398 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,561 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,672 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,620 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,852 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,598 | 7.6 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 8 | #12,791 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,223 | 4.3 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,924 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,206 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,919 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,816 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,934 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,649 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,625 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,710 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,020 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,204 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,531 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,765 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,493 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,578 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,531 | 21.3 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,128 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,054 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,634 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,405 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,805 | 14.3 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,467 | 16.6 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,372 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,386 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,538 | 13.6 |
| 1965 | 34 | #2,009 | 19.3 |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,758 | 23.2 |
| 1963 | 31 | #2,147 | 16.1 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,225 | 14.7 |
| 1961 | 37 | #1,900 | 18.3 |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,732 | 21.3 |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,959 | 16.3 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,562 | 23.4 |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,691 | 20.1 |
| 1956 | 56 | #1,405 | 27.9 |
| 1955 | 65 | #1,256 | 33.2 |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,354 | 28.3 |
| 1953 | 46 | #1,444 | 24.5 |
| 1952 | 41 | #1,510 | 22.1 |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,488 | 22.2 |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,438 | 23.9 |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,676 | 18.7 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,909 | 14.7 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,799 | 16.4 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,691 | 17.8 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,183 | 12.2 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,236 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,480 | 10.0 |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,002 | 14.1 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,302 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,475 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,700 | 19.1 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,974 | 15.4 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,366 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,428 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,949 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,346 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,240 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,402 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,071 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,932 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,877 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,546 | 11.3 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,398 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,523 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,644 | 4.9 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,264 | 4.1 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,724 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,154 | 5.8 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,359 | 7.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gwenn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gwenn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gwenn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gwenn, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 74% of the 1,502 Americans ever recorded as Gwenn. The median Gwenn alive today is 65 years old; half are between 53 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 1,326 people named Gwenn (1,303 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,205 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 76 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 596 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 287 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 48 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 60 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 46 |
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).
Where are babies named Gwenn born?
The states with the most babies named Gwenn are New York, Pennsylvania and California, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 111 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Minnesota | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gwenn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Gwenn?
Gwenn is a less common spelling of Gwen: SSA has recorded 1,502 Gwenn and 32,911 Gwen since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 34,413 babies since 1880, Gwenn is the second most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 384 babies recorded by SSA was a Gwenn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Gwenn
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 Gwenn and names like it
- Compare Gwenn and GwenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGwenn peaked in 1955.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gwenn since 1910.
- The top names of 1955The year the most babies were named Gwenn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gwenn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.