Gwendalynn
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- GWEN-duh-lin
- Origin
- Welsh
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Gwendalynn is a girls' name of Welsh origin, meaning “white ring”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Gwendalynn mean?
Welsh: spelling of Gwendalyn, itself a variant of Gwendolyn, from gwen 'white, blessed' and dolen 'ring'
“white ring”
Gwendolen appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth as a legendary queen of the Britons who defeated her unfaithful husband.
Meaning borrowed from Gwendalyn.
Is Gwendalynn a girl's or a boy's name?
Gwendalynn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Gwendalynn in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Gwendalynn, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2008, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
2025 had more girls named Gwendalynn than any year since 2014.
Half of all the girls named Gwendalynn in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Gwendalynn in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,786 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,952 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,516 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,123 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,386 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,043 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,717 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,738 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
Nicknames for Gwendalynn
Names like Gwendalynn
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Gracelynn, Adalynn, Brynn, Emerson, Addison, Kennedy, Braelynn, Madilyn, Teagan, Reese, Rowan, Raelynn
Names related to Gwendalynn
Gwendolyn, Gwendolynn, Gwendalyn, Gwendolen, Gwendoline, Gwyndolyn, Gwendelyn
More Welsh names
Dylan, Owen, Winnie, Maddox, Morgan, Idris, Bowen, Griffin, Rhys, Gavin, Reece, Nia, Seren, Winifred, Meredith, Eira
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Gwendalynn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/gwendalynn, updated 20 October 2026.