Gaynor
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Welsh
Gaynor is a girls' name of Welsh origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Gaynor mean?
Welsh
A female given name from Welsh, a variant of Welsh Gaenor or Guinevere, popular in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Gaynor a girl's or a boy's name?
Gaynor is a girls' name.
How popular is Gaynor in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 17 girls.
Half of all the girls named Gaynor in the UK since 1996 were born between 1996 and 1999. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Gaynor in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 1 | #6,685 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 1 | #5,540 |
| 2001 | 4 | #3,427 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,907 |
| 1999 | 9 | #1,921 |
| 1998 | 8 | #2,110 |
| 1997 | 10 | #1,780 |
| 1996 | 17 | #1,179 |
Names like Gaynor
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Eleanor, Ffion, Harriet, Georgia, Alice, Lydia, Rhiannon, Elizabeth, Iona, Charlotte, Josephine, Dorothy
More Welsh names
Dylan, Owen, Winnie, Maddox, Morgan, Idris, Reese, Bowen, Griffin, Rhys, Gavin, Reece, Nia, Seren, Gwendolyn, Winifred
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Gaynor: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/gaynor, updated 20 October 2026.