girls:
2.1k births since 1922
#3751 (34th percentile)
boys:
299 births since 1915
#4287 (6th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1915
#5430 (30th percentile)
The name Gwyn is the #5,430 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,392 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 29.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,751 (34.4% percentile) for all time with 2,093 births since 1922. For boys, it ranks #4,287 (6.5% percentile) for all time with 299 births since 1915.
Gwyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1922 for girls). Birth data for Gwyn is available in 97 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (89 years for girls and 40 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 Gwyn has been given predominantly to girls, with 87.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Gwyn were girls. Interestingly, until around 1929, the name was more popular for boys (70.1% boys from 1915 to 1928), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (90.2% girls from 1929 to 2023).
For girls, Gwyn reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 16.1% percentile (ranked #648) with 64 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 64 births per million (ranked 16.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Gwyn ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 11.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Gwyn reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #509) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1978.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gwyn".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Gwyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.7% confident that Gwyn is pronounced as gwihn, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is gwehn, at 13.3% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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