Gwynevere
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- GWEN-ih-veer
- Origin
- Welsh
- US rank, 2025
- #3,458 for girls
Gwynevere is a girls' name of Welsh origin, meaning “white, fair + phantom”. In 2025 it ranked 3,458th for girls in the US (44 babies).
What does Gwynevere mean?
Welsh: spelling of Guinevere, from Welsh Gwenhwyfar
“white, fair + phantom”
Guinevere is King Arthur's queen, whose love for Lancelot helps bring about the fall of Camelot.
Is Gwynevere a girl's or a boy's name?
Gwynevere is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 44 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Gwynevere in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,458th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 44 about 1 in 37,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 75% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 44 girls in the US were named Gwynevere, making it the 3,458th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,546th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 55 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the girls named Gwynevere in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 95 girls in the US were given Gwynevere or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,748, up from #3,458 for this spelling alone.
- Gwenivere 51
- Gwynevere 44
Gwynevere in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,458 |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,976 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,189 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,293 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,503 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,546 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,652 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,517 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,336 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,450 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,050 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,027 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
Nicknames for Gwynevere
- Gwen 34 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Gwynevere
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Guinevere, Coraline, Calliope, Reese, Vivienne, Marlowe, Eliette, Elodie, Everly, Elowyn, Aubrielle, Adalynn
Other spellings of Gwynevere
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, “Gwynevere: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/gwynevere, updated 20 October 2026.