Fun Facts About the Name Gwyndolyn
- 519 babies named Gwyndolyn: U.S. records list 519 babies given the name Gwyndolyn from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Gwyndolyn Mean?
Gwyndolyn is an English feminine name meaning "fair ring," from the Welsh name Gwendolen. Gwendolen combines Welsh gwen "white, fair, blessed" - represented by the masculine form gwyn in Gwyndolyn - with dolen "ring, link." The literal sense is "white ring" or "fair ring"; "blessed ring" is a looser interpretation. Gwyndolyn is a spelling variant of Gwendolyn, an English form of Gwendolen, with the common English feminine ending -lyn.
Gwyndolyn Name History & Origins
Gwendolen is an old Welsh name. A notable medieval literary appearance is in Geoffrey of Monmouth's twelfth-century Historia Regum Britanniae, where Gwendolen, daughter of Corineus, is wife of Locrinus and later rules as queen. Later English writers used Gwendolen as a character name: George Eliot's Daniel Deronda has Gwendolen Harleth, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest has Gwendolen Fairfax. These are literary uses of Gwendolen, not the name's origin.
Gwyndolyn is an English spelling variant within the Gwendolen and Gwendolyn family. It uses the Welsh-looking Gwyn- element and the ending -lyn, rather than the traditional Welsh form Gwendolen. Its history therefore belongs to the English adaptation of that Welsh name, not to a separate Welsh root.
How Popular is the Name Gwyndolyn?
Gwyndolyn has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 1952. Its best rank was #2,718 in 1952.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #13,800 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2024 | #8,086 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2023 | #12,583 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #16,163 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2021 | #14,094 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2020 | #11,452 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2019 | #9,333 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2018 | #8,814 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2017 | #12,018 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2016 | #12,156 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2015 | #9,708 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2014 | #15,276 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2013 | #13,677 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2012 | #17,805 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #17,720 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2010 | #11,600 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2009 | #12,862 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2008 | #13,017 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2007 | #13,099 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2006 | #10,870 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2005 | #15,157 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2004 | #12,009 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2002 | #14,212 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2001 | #8,969 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2000 | #15,909 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1999 | #13,262 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1998 | #10,445 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1997 | #11,246 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1995 | #10,916 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1992 | #14,040 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1991 | #12,033 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1988 | #12,463 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1987 | #7,577 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1983 | #10,834 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1980 | #7,642 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1977 | #8,815 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1974 | #9,231 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1972 | #8,724 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1971 | #7,708 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1970 | #6,577 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1969 | #7,870 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1968 | #6,513 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1966 | #6,924 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1963 | #6,121 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1962 | #5,492 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1961 | #5,034 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1958 | #5,076 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 1957 | #4,345 | 9 | 0.0004% |
| 1956 | #5,013 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 1955 | #6,184 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1954 | #4,411 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1953 | #4,372 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1952 | #2,718 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1951 | #4,168 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1950 | #3,784 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1949 | #3,477 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1948 | #3,038 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1947 | #3,323 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1946 | #4,646 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1944 | #4,241 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1943 | #3,952 | 7 | 0.0005% |
| 1942 | #3,070 | 10 | 0.0007% |
| 1941 | #4,666 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1940 | #3,327 | 8 | 0.0007% |
| 1939 | #4,515 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1938 | #4,034 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1937 | #3,996 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1935 | #4,487 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1931 | #4,612 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1925 | #4,646 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1924 | #5,404 | 5 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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