Gwendoline
About Gwendoline
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.
Pronounced GWEN-duh-leen.
As of October 2026, Gwendoline ranked #11277 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1251 in 1903.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
Similar names
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- Emmanuelle
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- Magdalen
- Magdelene
- Augustina
- Mathilde
- Frederica
- Shoshana
- Letitia
- Marta
- Margery
- Heloise
- Gwendolen
- Leonor
- Hildegard
Gwendoline on lists
Famous Gwendolines
- 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
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.'
Variations & nicknames
- Gwendolynspelling variation