Gwendalyn
About 1,207 American babies have been named Gwendalyn since 1940, most of them around 2008. In 2025 it ranked 6,546th. About 1,200 Gwendalyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Gwendalyn
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,207
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2008
- Best rank
- 3,420th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,546th
- First recorded
- 1940
How old the living Gwendalyns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,207 babies given the name since 1940, about 1,200 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 510 of them are children and 100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Gwendalyn is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Gwendalyn is most concentrated in California (4.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2008
The most popular girls’ names the year Gwendalyn peaked:
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Gwendalyn against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.