girls:
342 births since 1905
#5374 (6th percentile)
overall:
342 births since 1905
#7397 (4th percentile)
The name Gwendolyne is the #7,397 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 342 recorded births since 1905. This represents the 4.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,374 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 342 births since 1905.
Gwendolyne first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1905 (first recorded for girls in 1905). Birth data for Gwendolyne is available in 50 out of the 119 years between 1905 and 2023. 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, Gwendolyne reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #603) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 16 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Gwendolyne ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 17.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gwendolyne".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Gwendolyne", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 20 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Gwendolyn" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Gwendolyn..
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Gwendolyne. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Gwendolyne is pronounced as GWEHN-duh-lihn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GWEHN-duh-leen, at 11.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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