girls:
50 births since 1946
#5666 (1st percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1928
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
55 births since 1928
#7684 (1st percentile)
The name Gwendell is the #7,684 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 55 recorded births since 1928. This represents the 0.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,666 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 50 births since 1946. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1928.
Gwendell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1928 (1928 for boys and 1946 for girls). Birth data for Gwendell is available in 9 out of the 33 years between 1928 and 1960 (8 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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.
The name Gwendell has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.9% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1946, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1928 to 1945), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1946 to 1960).
For girls, Gwendell reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #653) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1946, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1960.
For boys, Gwendell reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #543) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1928.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gwendell".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Gwendell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.4% confident that Gwendell is pronounced as GWEHN-dehl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GWEHN-duhl, at 17.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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