Gwendoline

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Gwendoline: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Gwendoline: Recorded since 1964, with a gap of 10 years, its highest recorded position is #174, and it stood at #4,843 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
45times a registrar ranked it
61years from first to last
#174highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Gwendoline's record

Absent from every published list for 10 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#3174
1999	#3225
2001	#3998
2002	#3409
2004	#3725
2005	#2970
2006	#5061
2008	#3860
2009	#2535
2010	#2392
2011	#3185
2012	#3285
2013	#2649
2014	#1882
2015	#3252
2016	#3214
2017	#3229
2018	#2901
2019	#3151
2020	#2843
2021	#2711
2022	#2888
2023	#2504
2024	#4843

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 25 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1964–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #186 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1964–1985
Highest recorded position: #174 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1966 (recorded 1964–1985).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Gwendoline appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 25 ranked years and 168 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1964.

Gwendoline across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Gwendoline's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#1882 (2014)	#4843 (2024)	25 of 29	168 (1996–2024)	15 (2014)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#186 (1964)	#174 (1966)	#519 (1985)	20 of 22	262 (1964–1985)	23 (1972)

Gwendoline by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Gwendoline in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	11	3 of 10	4
2000s	34	7 of 10	5
2010sbusiest	84	10 of 10	8
2020s	39	5 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Gwendoline appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1964 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #174 in Republic of Ireland in 1966.

Gwendoline's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4843	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2504	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2888	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2711	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3229	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3252	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1882	15	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2649	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3185	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2535	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#519	3	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#459	4	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#533	3	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	8	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	5	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#331	9	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#348	8	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#271	12	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#262	13	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#233	18	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#262	14	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#204	23	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#212	20	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#200	21	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#197	22	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#207	16	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#214	13	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#174	21	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#215	12	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#186	17	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1964 and 2024, ranked in 45 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #174, first reached in 1966.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 23 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1972.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 10 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 32 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Gwen · #271, 52y
Gwendolen · #396, 24y
Gwendolyn · #343, 34y
Gwenllian · #1074, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Herbert · #175, 42y
Derick · #170, 43y
Stacy · #178, 41y
Jerzy · #167, 45y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Darina · #174, 55y
Herbert · #175, 42y
Rhona · #175, 59y
Sheena · #173, 54y

Gwendoline was ranked #174 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1966. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Gwendoline and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Gwendoline without appearing here.

Gwendoline moved ahead of

Helene Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3285 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1882 and #5691.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #5061 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2392 and #5707.
Kristy Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3285 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1882 and #4684.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2843 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Gwendoline

Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2504 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #1743.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1882 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #3252 and #1240.
Cooper Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2504 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #3695.
Eabha Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3214 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #3229 and #2201.

Moved the opposite way to Gwendoline

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gwendoline went from #3174 to #4843 while Blake went from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gwendoline went from #3174 to #4843 while Ezra went from #3824 to #1302.
Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gwendoline went from #3225 to #4843 while Frida went from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gwendoline went from #3225 to #4843 while Meabh went from #3225 to #952.

Moved the same way as Gwendoline

Alice Compare
Between 1964 and 1985 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Gwendoline went from #186 to #519 and Alice from #57 to #132.
Angela Compare
Between 1964 and 1985 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Gwendoline went from #186 to #519 and Angela from #24 to #104.
Ann Compare
Between 1964 and 1985 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Gwendoline went from #186 to #519 and Ann from #4 to #32.
Anna Compare
Between 1964 and 1985 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Gwendoline went from #186 to #519 and Anna from #34 to #72.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1964 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #174 in Republic of Ireland in 1966. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Gwendoline

Gwendoline at a glance

What stands out in Gwendoline's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Gwendoline across 2 official records

Gwendoline by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Gwendoline appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Gwendoline at a glance

What stands out in Gwendoline's record

Gwendoline across 2 official records

Gwendoline by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Gwendoline appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Gwendoline

Gwendoline and the names beside it

Gwendoline moved ahead of

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