Gwendelyn
- Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194
- Peak · girls
- 1959 · 10 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 394since 1944
Gwendelyn over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Gwendelyn has never cracked the top 4,000 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 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
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| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
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| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 |
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| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 |
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 |
| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 |
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| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 |
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| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
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| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 |
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First appearance
1944
The first year at least five girls were named Gwendelyn! It came in at #4,574, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1944–1947, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Gwendelyn is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Gwendelyn in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Faded out
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
Rise & fade · girls
15 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 1959 at #4,031 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1961, 2 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 138,222
- Highest: 1 in 138,222 girls born in 2002 were named Gwendelyn (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 320,916 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,031 in 1959, was only 1 in 202,346 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 25.1% of all girls named Gwendelyn (99) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 18 | #4,235 (1949) | #4,487 |
| 1950s | 36 | #4,031 (1959) | #4,855 |
| 1960s | 51 | #4,263 (1962) | #5,883 |
| 1970s | 58 | #5,480 (1972) | #7,041 |
| 1980s | 10 | #10,392 (1980) | #10,402 |
| 1990s | 28 | #9,260 (1998) | #11,157 |
| 2000s | 76 | #7,816 (2002) | #11,641 |
| 2010s | 99 | #8,875 (2016) | #10,487 |
| 2020s | 18 | #11,090 (2020) | #13,863 |
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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