Gwyn
Gwyn was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,678 among girls’ names; 2,414 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,800 Americans named Gwyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 52 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gwyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gwyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gwyn is “a diminutive of the female given name Gwyneth.”
Also “a male given name from Welsh.”
From Welsh gwyn.
/ɡwɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gwyn?
#9,678 among girls’ names, 2025
Gwyn rose from #10,389 in 2015 to #9,678 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 6.2 per million.
135 babies in 1962, the peak
Gwyn peaked in 1962, when 135 babies were given it (129 girls, #935 among girls’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,678 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,624 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,207 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,950 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,101 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,452 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,772 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,861 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,543 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,641 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,389 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,309 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,286 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,853 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,431 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,810 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,688 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,114 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,438 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,681 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,001 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,693 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,052 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,366 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,314 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,032 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,025 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,734 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,598 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,550 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,718 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,982 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,334 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,075 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,364 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,063 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,372 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,326 | 5 | #6,149 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,116 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,035 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,549 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,472 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,421 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,700 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 39 | #2,122 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 47 | #1,866 | 7 | #3,997 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,224 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,950 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,230 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,834 | 6 | #3,683 |
| 1965 | 45 | #1,677 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 86 | #1,192 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 102 | #1,068 | 7 | #3,444 |
| 1962 | 129 | #935 | 6 | #3,791 |
| 1961 | 125 | #965 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 100 | #1,076 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 1959 | 72 | #1,265 | 7 | #3,402 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,917 | 7 | #3,382 |
| 1957 | 44 | #1,630 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,065 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,484 | 6 | #3,661 |
| 1954 | 63 | #1,250 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,570 | 7 | #3,242 |
| 1952 | 45 | #1,445 | 6 | #3,512 |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,469 | 6 | #3,510 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,692 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,343 | 10 | #2,513 |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,719 | 6 | #3,453 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,733 | 7 | #3,197 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,341 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,268 | 6 | #3,133 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,551 | 10 | #2,370 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,184 | 7 | #3,068 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,468 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,579 | 9 | #2,551 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,476 | 9 | #2,561 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,479 | 11 | #2,221 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,802 | 9 | #2,549 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,039 | 5 | #3,739 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,429 | 6 | #3,315 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,811 | 12 | #2,175 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,010 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,979 | 11 | #2,275 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,403 | 7 | #3,208 |
| 1931 | under 5 | 8 | #2,949 | |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,474 | 9 | #2,864 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,016 | 7 | #3,370 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,566 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,512 | 6 | #3,943 |
| 1926 | under 5 | 5 | #4,468 | |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,187 | 6 | #3,916 |
| 1924 | under 5 | 11 | #2,722 | |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,630 | 7 | #3,612 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,325 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 8 | #3,330 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 9 | #2,970 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 12 | #2,453 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 5 | #4,161 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,576 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Gwyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,414 Americans recorded as Gwyn, 88% are girls and 12% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Gwyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gwyn, and how old are they?
1,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 2,414 Americans ever recorded as Gwyn. The median Gwyn alive today is 63 years old; half are between 52 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 2,253 people named Gwyn (2,052 women and girls, 201 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,887 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 91 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 948 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 440 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 72 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 125 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 125 |
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 Gwyn born?
The states with the most babies named Gwyn are California, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 107 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 60 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 54 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 45 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 35 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 30 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 29 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 14 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Gwyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,026 babies since 1880, Gwyn is the most given (48% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 29 babies (34%), the second most given that year.
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 Gwyn
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 Gwyn and names like it
- Compare Gwyn and GwynneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sGwyn peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gwyn since 1910.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Gwyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Gwyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gwyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.