Gwyneth
Gwyneth was given to 114 girls in 2025, #1,771 among girls’ names; 6,657 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,220 Americans named Gwyneth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gwyneth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gwyneth mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gwyneth is “a female given name from Welsh.”
Borrowed from Welsh Gwyneth.
/ˈɡwɪnəθ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gwyneth?
#1,771 among girls’ names, 2025
Gwyneth fell from #1,096 in 2015 to #1,771 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.13 to 0.07 per 1,000.
288 babies in 2013, the peak
Gwyneth peaked in 2013, when 288 girls were given it, #892 among girls’ names. The 114 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 114 | #1,771 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 113 | #1,783 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 105 | #1,895 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 150 | #1,469 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 149 | #1,446 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 151 | #1,442 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 166 | #1,362 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 179 | #1,281 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 179 | #1,309 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 195 | #1,255 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 236 | #1,096 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 245 | #1,059 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 288 | #892 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 207 | #1,189 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 264 | #970 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 186 | #1,279 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 202 | #1,232 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 196 | #1,272 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 213 | #1,191 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 222 | #1,123 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 226 | #1,054 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 251 | #957 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 214 | #1,054 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 209 | #1,035 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 199 | #1,068 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 187 | #1,098 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 178 | #1,114 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 132 | #1,331 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,052 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,046 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,061 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,814 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,891 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,285 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,697 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,917 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,623 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,400 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,391 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,033 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,326 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,386 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,855 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,563 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,775 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,390 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,810 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,327 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,287 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,828 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,425 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,754 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,525 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,891 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,558 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,806 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,949 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,223 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,920 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,966 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,621 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,766 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,570 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,210 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,373 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,934 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,504 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,792 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,794 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,415 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,361 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,918 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,256 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,530 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,270 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,592 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,899 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,038 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,564 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,791 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,269 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,328 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,339 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,309 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,580 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,057 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,514 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,995 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,430 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,626 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,817 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,201 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,145 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,644 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,597 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,730 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,678 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,377 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,399 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,847 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,876 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,219 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,494 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,427 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,293 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,881 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,899 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,041 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,120 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,602 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gwyneth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gwyneth has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 110 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gwyneth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gwyneth, and how old are they?
6,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 6,657 Americans ever recorded as Gwyneth. The median Gwyneth alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 5,435 people named Gwyneth (5,423 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,562 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 52 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 286 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 242 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 263 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,260 |
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 Gwyneth born?
The states with the most babies named Gwyneth are California, Ohio and Texas, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15 | #1,523 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 11 | #833 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,280 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,757 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 7 | #976 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,199 | 0.3× |
Where Gwyneth is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gwyneth is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1915 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Gwyneth 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,912 babies since 1880, Gwyneth is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 114 of their 114 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Gwyneth
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 Gwyneth and names like it
- Compare Gwyneth and GwynnethBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGwyneth peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gwyneth since 1910.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Gwyneth: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Gwyneth.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gwyneth alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.