How popular is “Gwendolyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gwendolyn” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Gwendolyn” 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 “Gwendolyn” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gwendolyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gwendolyn” 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	Males	Bias toward female
1880	5	0.000024816	5		100%
1881	5	0.000025949	5		100%
1886	6	0.0000235	6		100%
1887	8	0.000032337	8		100%
1888	9	0.000030053	9		100%
1889	12	0.00004153	12		100%
1890	11	0.000036496	11		100%
1891	6	0.00002093	6		100%
1892	18	0.000053832	18		100%
1893	15	0.000046122	15		100%
1894	16	0.000047241	16		100%
1895	28	0.000079768	28		100%
1896	24	0.000067136	24		100%
1897	27	0.000077819	27		100%
1898	33	0.000086511	33		100%
1899	27	0.000079591	27		100%
1900	37	0.000082175	37		100%
1901	39	0.000112778	39		100%
1902	57	0.000147389	57		100%
1903	62	0.000162644	62		100%
1904	75	0.000185881	75		100%
1905	68	0.000160407	68		100%
1906	87	0.000203057	87		100%
1907	100	0.000214874	100		100%
1908	127	0.0002599	127		100%
1909	123	0.000240599	123		100%
1910	151	0.000255624	151		100%
1911	194	0.000301112	194		100%
1912	276	0.000279335	276		100%
1913	298	0.000262068	298		100%
1914	382	0.000269708	382		100%
1915	575	0.000313792	575		100%
1916	574	0.00029673	574		100%
1917	577	0.00028753	577		100%
1918	657	0.00030261	657		100%
1919	647	0.000306599	647		100%
1920	758	0.000335006	758		100%
1921	819	0.000350824	819		100%
1922	771	0.000336805	771		100%
1923	849	0.000368733	849		100%
1924	889	0.000373277	884	5	99%
1925	889	0.000381005	889		100%
1926	853	0.000371531	848	5	99%
1927	960	0.000413908	960		100%
1928	988	0.000436987	988		100%
1929	901	0.00041101	892	9	98%
1930	964	0.000433592	959	5	99%
1931	900	0.000427678	893	7	98%
1932	934	0.000442383	929	5	99%
1933	934	0.000467129	926	8	98%
1934	1002	0.000482469	1002		100%
1935	992	0.000474664	984	8	98%
1936	950	0.000457263	944	6	99%
1937	1097	0.000514862	1084	13	98%
1938	1215	0.000549134	1205	10	98%
1939	1191	0.000540518	1182	9	98%
1940	1232	0.000535028	1222	10	98%
1941	1276	0.000523718	1268	8	99%
1942	1385	0.000506988	1380	5	99%
1943	1535	0.000543833	1535		100%
1944	1535	0.000570615	1525	10	99%
1945	1560	0.000588034	1560		100%
1946	2067	0.000646886	2062	5	100%
1947	2458	0.000682338	2450	8	99%
1948	2516	0.000728744	2506	10	99%
1949	2843	0.000815834	2836	7	100%
1950	3044	0.000868881	3039	5	100%
1951	3199	0.000868411	3192	7	100%
1952	3341	0.000879672	3329	12	99%
1953	3530	0.000916016	3518	12	99%
1954	3422	0.000859646	3409	13	99%
1955	3466	0.000863246	3458	8	100%
1956	3389	0.000821967	3376	13	99%
1957	3318	0.000789597	3302	16	99%
1958	2674	0.000646846	2668	6	100%
1959	2665	0.000640934	2653	12	99%
1960	2556	0.000615338	2547	9	99%
1961	2542	0.000613669	2535	7	99%
1962	2514	0.000622991	2508	6	100%
1963	2263	0.000571724	2257	6	99%
1964	1900	0.000488733	1893	7	99%
1965	1709	0.00047139	1702	7	99%
1966	1414	0.00040683	1414		100%
1967	1342	0.000395299	1337	5	99%
1968	1246	0.000368812	1241	5	99%
1969	1205	0.00034673	1200	5	99%
1970	1226	0.00033994	1220	6	99%
1971	1087	0.000316692	1081	6	99%
1972	870	0.000276806	870		100%
1973	764	0.000253241	764		100%
1974	802	0.000263816	795	7	98%
1975	791	0.000261973	791		100%
1976	731	0.000240912	731		100%
1977	586	0.00018448	586		100%
1978	543	0.000171085	543		100%
1979	533	0.000160204	533		100%
1980	486	0.000141094	486		100%
1981	444	0.000128347	444		100%
1982	432	0.000123148	432		100%
1983	392	0.000113186	392		100%
1984	359	0.000102902	359		100%
1985	410	0.000114875	410		100%
1986	370	0.000104018	370		100%
1987	317	0.000087918	317		100%
1988	310	0.000083896	310		100%
1989	318	0.000082717	318		100%
1990	314	0.000079444	314		100%
1991	314	0.000080611	314		100%
1992	317	0.000082525	317		100%
1993	267	0.000070817	267		100%
1994	289	0.000077737	289		100%
1995	228	0.000062258	228		100%
1996	282	0.00007732	282		100%
1997	311	0.000085775	311		100%
1998	315	0.00008564	315		100%
1999	347	0.000093939	347		100%
2000	317	0.000083865	317		100%
2001	374	0.000099909	374		100%
2002	453	0.000121178	453		100%
2003	458	0.000120453	458		100%
2004	476	0.000124577	476		100%
2005	508	0.000132125	508		100%
2006	458	0.000115768	458		100%
2007	455	0.000113816	455		100%
2008	527	0.000134074	527		100%
2009	522	0.000136643	522		100%
2010	518	0.000140161	518		100%
2011	513	0.000140249	513		100%
2012	592	0.000161865	592		100%
2013	651	0.000178568	651		100%
2014	764	0.000206131	764		100%
2015	791	0.000213731	791		100%
2016	826	0.000225148	826		100%
2017	822	0.000229853	822		100%
2018	845	0.000240337	845		100%
2019	852	0.000245467	852		100%
2020	820	0.000245467	820		100%
2021	794	0.00023436	794		100%
2022	801	0.000236763	801		100%
2023	814	0.000245833	814		100%
2024	802	0.000240949	802		100%

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