girls:
2.3k births since 1921
#3628 (37th percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1921
#5536 (28th percentile)
The name Gwenda is the #5,536 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,264 recorded births since 1921. This represents the 28.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,628 (36.5% percentile) for all time with 2,264 births since 1921.
Gwenda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1921 (first recorded for girls in 1921). Birth data for Gwenda is available in 62 out of the 98 years between 1921 and 2018. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Gwenda reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 15.1% percentile (ranked #586) with 57 births per million. The name was most common in 1952, with 57 births per million (ranked 15.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gwenda".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Gwenda is pronounced as GWEHN-duh, which has 2 syllables.
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