How popular is “Gwendolen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gwendolen” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Gwendolen” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Gwendolen” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Gwendolen” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Gwendolen” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Gwendolen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gwendolen” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1903	6	0.00001574	6	100%
1909	6	0.000011737	6	100%
1911	7	0.000010865	7	100%
1915	6	0.000003274	6	100%
1916	5	0.000002585	5	100%
1919	10	0.000004739	10	100%
1921	5	0.000002142	5	100%
1923	6	0.000002606	6	100%
1925	8	0.000003429	8	100%
1926	9	0.00000392	9	100%
1929	5	0.000002281	5	100%
1931	8	0.000003802	8	100%
1933	5	0.000002501	5	100%
1935	8	0.000003828	8	100%
1941	7	0.000002873	7	100%
1947	6	0.000001666	6	100%
1949	6	0.000001722	6	100%
1951	6	0.000001629	6	100%
1952	6	0.00000158	6	100%
1954	6	0.000001507	6	100%
1955	6	0.000001494	6	100%
1956	20	0.000004851	20	100%
1957	9	0.000002142	9	100%
1958	10	0.000002419	10	100%
1959	13	0.000003127	13	100%
1960	8	0.000001926	8	100%
1961	5	0.000001207	5	100%
1962	9	0.00000223	9	100%
1963	12	0.000003032	12	100%
1964	18	0.00000463	18	100%
1965	10	0.000002758	10	100%
1966	31	0.000008919	31	100%
1967	20	0.000005891	20	100%
1968	27	0.000007992	27	100%
1969	17	0.000004892	17	100%
1970	18	0.000004991	18	100%
1971	34	0.000009906	34	100%
1972	17	0.000005409	17	100%
1973	21	0.000006961	21	100%
1974	27	0.000008882	27	100%
1975	24	0.000007949	24	100%
1976	21	0.000006921	21	100%
1977	20	0.000006296	20	100%
1978	16	0.000005041	16	100%
1979	11	0.000003306	11	100%
1980	11	0.000003193	11	100%
1981	9	0.000002602	9	100%
1982	7	0.000001995	7	100%
1983	9	0.000002599	9	100%
1984	5	0.000001433	5	100%
1990	6	0.000001518	6	100%
1996	5	0.000001371	5	100%
1998	5	0.000001359	5	100%
2002	6	0.000001605	6	100%
2004	6	0.00000157	6	100%
2005	9	0.000002341	9	100%
2007	5	0.000001251	5	100%
2008	8	0.000002035	8	100%
2009	6	0.000001571	6	100%
2010	7	0.000001894	7	100%
2011	7	0.000001914	7	100%
2012	9	0.000002461	9	100%
2013	16	0.000004389	16	100%
2014	22	0.000005936	22	100%
2015	27	0.000007295	27	100%
2016	27	0.00000736	27	100%
2017	15	0.000004194	15	100%
2018	13	0.000003697	13	100%
2019	14	0.000004033	14	100%
2020	18	0.000005388	18	100%
2021	10	0.000002952	10	100%
2022	11	0.000003251	11	100%
2023	17	0.000005134	17	100%
2024	12	0.000003605	12	100%

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