Gwendolynn vs Gwenyth
American parents have registered 3,268 Gwenyths since 1880, against 1,454 Gwendolynns. Gwenyth is still ahead, with 56 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Gwendolynn Gwenyth
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
Of the 100 years in which either name was published, Gwendolynn for 56 years and Gwenyth for 44 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.
- 1921 Gwendolynn ahead
- 1922 Gwenyth ahead
- 1923 Gwendolynn ahead
- 1924 Gwenyth ahead
- 1925–1926 Gwendolynn ahead
- 1927–1933 Gwenyth ahead
- 1934 Gwendolynn ahead
- 1937–1940 Gwenyth ahead
- 1941 Gwendolynn ahead
- 1942–1944 Gwenyth ahead
- 1945–1995 Gwendolynn ahead
- 1996–2025 Gwenyth ahead
Side by side
| Gwendolynn | Gwenyth | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,454 | 3,268 |
| Most in one year | 41 | 176 |
| Babies in 2025 | 34 | 56 |
| Estimated living today | 1,300 | 3,100 |
| Median age today | 24 | 14 |
| Peak year | 2023 | 2013 |
| Best rank | 3,709th girls | 1,328th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 4,172nd | 2,957th |
| First recorded | 1921 | 1921 |
| Girls / boys | 1,454 / 0 | 3,268 / 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 Gwendolynns alive today are over 24; half the Gwenyths are over 14. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Gwendolynn California (5.1×)
- Gwenyth Utah (5.5×), Michigan (2.3×), California (2.3×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gwendolynn and Gwenyth.