Gwendoline

Where Gwendoline comes from

The dictionaries list Gwendoline as a given name — a female given name from Welsh, an anglicized form of Welsh Gwendolen — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Welsh
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1893
    First appearance
    #1,437 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1903
    Peak, #1,204
    9 babies named Gwendoline — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1904
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Welsh, an anglicized form of Welsh Gwendolen.
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.