Gaynor

Where Gaynor comes from

The dictionaries list Gaynor as a given name — a female given name from Welsh, a variant of Welsh Gaenor or Guinevere, popular in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Welsh
Along the way
  1. 1926
    First appearance
    #4,851 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1939
    Peak, #2,922
    9 babies named Gaynor — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1941
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1957
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Welsh, a variant of Welsh Gaenor or Guinevere, popular in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.