Gwenivere
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- GWEN-ih-veer
- Origin
- Welsh
- US rank, 2025
- #3,130 for girls
Gwenivere is a girls' name of Welsh origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,130th for girls in the US (51 babies).
What does Gwenivere mean?
Welsh: variant of Guinevere, from Welsh Gwenhwyfar
Guinevere is King Arthur's queen in Arthurian legend, famed for her love affair with Lancelot.
Is Gwenivere a girl's or a boy's name?
Gwenivere is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 51 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Gwenivere in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,130th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 51 about 1 in 32,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 43% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 51 girls in the US were named Gwenivere, making it the 3,130th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,450th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 87 girls. It first appears in the records in 1970.
Half of all the girls named Gwenivere in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 95 girls in the US were given Gwenivere or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,748, up from #3,130 for this spelling alone.
- Gwenivere 51
- Gwynevere 44
Gwenivere in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,130 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,395 |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,646 |
| 2022 | 87 | #2,174 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,533 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,450 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,610 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,766 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,693 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,283 |
| 2015 | 27 | #4,979 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,454 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,011 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,852 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,600 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,088 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,760 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,708 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,815 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,581 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,669 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,189 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,156 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 5 | #7,994 |
Nicknames for Gwenivere
- Gwen 34 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Gwenivere
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Guinevere, Reese, Vivienne, Calliope, Coraline, Emmeline, Marlowe, Juliette, Annalise, Emerson, Gracelynn, Aubrielle
Other spellings of Gwenivere
Names related to Gwenivere
More Welsh names
Dylan, Owen, Winnie, Maddox, Morgan, Idris, Bowen, Griffin, Rhys, Gavin, Reece, Nia, Seren, Gwendolyn, Winifred, Meredith
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, “Gwenivere: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/gwenivere, updated 20 October 2026.