Gwendalyn
- #6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · girls
- 1951 · 11 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,207since 1940
Gwendalyn over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Gwendalyn has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 |
| 2024 | #4,669 | 29 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 |
| 2016 | #3,849 | 39 |
| 2015 | #4,144 | 35 |
| 2014 | #5,456 | 24 |
| 2013 | #5,013 | 27 |
| 2012 | #3,988 | 38 |
| 2011 | #3,916 | 38 |
| 2010 | #4,397 | 33 |
| 2009 | #4,196 | 36 |
| 2008 | #3,420 | 48 |
| 2007 | #3,601 | 45 |
| 2006 | #4,165 | 35 |
| 2005 | #3,809 | 38 |
| 2004 | #4,387 | 31 |
| 2003 | #4,109 | 32 |
| 2002 | #3,978 | 32 |
| 2001 | #4,447 | 27 |
| 2000 | #5,937 | 18 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 |
| 1998 | #3,914 | 29 |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 |
| 1963 | #4,896 | 8 |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
| 1960 | #3,357 | 14 |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 |
| 1956 | #3,493 | 12 |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
| 1954 | #3,718 | 10 |
| 1953 | #3,687 | 10 |
| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 |
| 1951 | #3,284 | 11 |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 |
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| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 |
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| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 |
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First appearance
1940
The first year at least five girls were named Gwendalyn! It came in at #4,349, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1940–1943, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Gwendalyn is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Gwendalyn in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Gwendalyn
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 1,877 spots since 2024 (#4,669 → #6,546)
- 666 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #6,546)
- 2,402 spots since 2015 (#4,144 → #6,546)
Rise & fade · girls
11 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1940
- Peaked 1951 at #3,284 (11 births)
- Births halved by 1955, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 39,395
- Highest: 1 in 39,395 girls born in 2008 were named Gwendalyn (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,284 in 1951, was only 1 in 163,714 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 28.3% of all girls named Gwendalyn (342) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 34 | #3,378 (1944) | #4,123 |
| 1950s | 88 | #3,284 (1951) | #4,225 |
| 1960s | 70 | #3,357 (1960) | #5,373 |
| 1970s | 85 | #4,534 (1971) | #6,451 |
| 1980s | 61 | #5,245 (1980) | #8,290 |
| 1990s | 100 | #3,914 (1998) | #9,019 |
| 2000s | 342 | #3,420 (2008) | #4,205 |
| 2010s | 303 | #3,849 (2016) | #4,763 |
| 2020s | 124 | #4,669 (2024) | #5,968 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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