Gwenna
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- GWEN-uh
- Origin
- Celtic
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Gwenna is a girls' name of Celtic origin, meaning “white or fair”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Gwenna mean?
Celtic: extended form of Gwen, from Brittonic gwen 'white'
“white or fair”
An extended form of Gwen, from the Brittonic Celtic word for white or fair, found in Welsh, Cornish and Breton.
Is Gwenna a girl's or a boy's name?
Gwenna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Gwenna in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 4 girls.
Gwenna in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
How popular is Gwenna in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 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, 7 girls in the US were named Gwenna, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 1965, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1935.
Half of all the girls named Gwenna in the US since 1880 were born between 1961 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
Gwenna in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,344 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,390 |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,650 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,290 |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,412 |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,146 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,456 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,563 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,401 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,095 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,018 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,864 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,792 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,167 |
| 1959 | 0 | – |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,102 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,488 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,695 |
| 1955 | 0 | – |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,717 |
| 1953 | 0 | – |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,561 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,413 |
| 1950 | 0 | – |
| 1949 | 0 | – |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,241 |
| 1947 | 0 | – |
| 1946 | 0 | – |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,554 |
| 1944 | 0 | – |
| 1943 | 0 | – |
| 1942 | 0 | – |
| 1941 | 0 | – |
| 1940 | 0 | – |
| 1939 | 0 | – |
| 1938 | 0 | – |
| 1937 | 0 | – |
| 1936 | 0 | – |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,740 |
Nicknames for Gwenna
- Gwen 34 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Gwenna
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ava, Isla, Lyla, Lyra, Nora, Mila, Myla, Bella, Orla, Lana, Zara, Eva
Names related to Gwenna
Gwen, Gwenno, Gwennan, Gwenan, Genna, Gena, Geanna, Geonna, Gwenn
More Celtic names
Arthur, Imogen, Gael, Harvey, Alana, Alan, Tristan, Vienna, Alaina, Sabrina, Alanna, Bryce, Devon, Arturo, Alannah, Cedric
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Gwenna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/gwenna, updated 20 October 2026.