Gwendoline

Variation of Gwendolen, Welsh

"white ring"

Gwendoline Origin and Meaning

The name Gwendoline is a girl's name of Welsh origin meaning "white ring".

The Gwendoline form may introduce pronunciation confusion -- does that last syllable rhyme with wine or win or when? We vote Gwendolen as not only the most proper but the clearest spelling, followed by Gwendolyn, with Gwendoline a distant third.

Popularity of the name Gwendoline

• 1742 Nameberry 2019

20 Names Similar to Gwendoline

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• Gwendolen
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Famous People Named Gwendoline

• Gwendoline Christie English actress
• (Gwendoline Maud) Syrie Barnardo English interior decorator
• Gwendoline Elizabeth Davies Welsh philanthropist and art collector
• Gwendoline Didier French figure skater
• Gwendoline Butler English mystery novelist
• Gwendoline "Gwen" Harwood Australian poet
• Gwendoline Alice Porter British Olympic runner
• Gwendoline "Gwen" Raverat English artist and writer, granddaughter of Charles Darwin
• Gwendoline Gaelle Ramos Ruais Miss World Philippines 2011
• Gwendoline See Hian Yeo, Singaporean,born American actress
• Samantha Gwendoline Sheffield birth name of Samantha Cameron, wife of David Cameron

The name Gwendoline in Pop Culture

• Gwendoline (1886) opera by Emmanuel Chabrier
• Gwendoline character in Céline's "Mort à crédit" (1936); voracious sexual partner to Ferdinand (the narrator) on channel crossing
• Sweet Gwendoline character created by bondage artist John Willie and 1984 film "Gwendoline"
• Gwendoline Mary character in Enid Blyton's book series 'Malory Towers'
• 'By far the most popular form in Britain of Gwendolen at a peak in the 1920s but now quietly used.'