# Gwendoline (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gwendoline/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Welsh |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Gwendy |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 358 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 358 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 177, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 5 | 14,038 |
| 1998 | 7 | 11,560 |
| 2007 | 7 | 14,441 |
| 2013 | 5 | 17,501 |
| 2014 | 6 | 15,276 |
| 2016 | 11 | 9,644 |
| 2017 | 5 | 16,748 |
| 2018 | 10 | 10,072 |
| 2019 | 9 | 10,786 |
| 2020 | 7 | 12,619 |
| 2021 | 7 | 12,656 |
| 2022 | 9 | 10,668 |
| 2023 | 11 | 9,213 |
| 2024 | 10 | 9,809 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,277 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 3,185 |
| 2012 | 7 | 3,285 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2,649 |
| 2014 | 15 | 1,882 |
| 2015 | 7 | 3,252 |
| 2016 | 7 | 3,214 |
| 2017 | 7 | 3,229 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2,901 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3,151 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,843 |
| 2021 | 9 | 2,711 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,888 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,504 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,843 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,788 |

## People named Gwendoline

- Gwendoline Christie, British actress (born 1978)
- Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith, British tennis player (1883–1941)
- Gwendoline Porter, British sprinter (1902–1993)
- Gwendoline Joyce Lewis, British-born South African botanist (1909–1967)
- Gwendoline Hamon, French actress
- Joanne Goode, English badminton player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.