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Gwendloyn vs Gwendolynn

American parents have registered 1,454 Gwendolynns since 1880, against 88 Gwendloyns. Gwendolynn is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gwendloyn against Gwendolynn, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gwendloyn Gwendolynn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Gwendolynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1921 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1959, when Gwendloyn had 10 and Gwendolynn had 15.

Side by side

  Gwendloyn Gwendolynn
Total US births 881,454
Most in one year 1041
Babies in 2025 under 534
Estimated living today 701,300
Median age today 6624
Peak year 19592023
Best rank 4,031st girls3,709th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,172nd
First recorded 19501921
Girls / boys 88 / 01,454 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Gwendloyns alive today are over 66; half the Gwendolynns are over 24. That is 42 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gwendloyn and Gwendolynn.