Gwen: Meaning of Baby Name Gwen

Gwen Popularity Snapshot

Across the entire US Social Security Administration record (1880–2024), 294 baby boys have been named Gwen. The name peaked in 1949 with 15 US births that year (rank #1975).

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4-Letter Names Starting with G

Names with Gwen's exact length and starting letter: Ga!L, Gabe, Gabi, Gaby, Gace.

Quick Facts About Gwen

569

Celtic baby names in our dictionary

364

Celtic male names

64

4-letter G-names in our dictionary

470

G-male names total

2013–2025

years of US SSA records (13 total)

4,346

total US births named Gwen (all years)

US Popularity History (2013–2025)

🔥 Rising fast: Gwen climbed 97 places in the US girls ranking over the last 5 years (#822 in 2020 → #725 in 2025).

Annual US births named Gwen by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2024 with 403 girls named Gwen (girl rank #698 that year).

Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #725 for girls (384 US births). That's 27 places below its 2024 peak.

Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.

Where in the US Is Gwen Most Popular?

Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Gwen the strongest states are Utah, Idaho, Iowa.

Strongest girls-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	Utah	#184	222
2	Idaho	#329	51
3	Iowa	#497	26
4	Nevada	#517	16
5	Oregon	#523	30
6	Kansas	#559	17
7	Minnesota	#572	90
8	Indiana	#587	84
9	Ohio	#620	134
10	Massachusetts	#625	76

Weakest girls-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	New Jersey	#952	29
2	Tennessee	#928	21
3	Virginia	#871	33
4	Colorado	#753	63
5	Pennsylvania	#731	95
6	Washington	#721	85
7	California	#715	427
8	Missouri	#715	55
9	Arizona	#705	77
10	Illinois	#688	142

Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Gwen in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.

Famous People Named Gwen

1 notable figure from history and culture who share the name Gwen.

Gwen Stefani — Pop Singer (1969)

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Compare Gwen to Other Popular Names

Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Gwen against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).

Gwen vs Olivia 210,124 births since 2014

Gwen vs Emma 202,477 births since 2014

Gwen vs Sophia 169,709 births since 2014

Gwen vs Isabella 158,431 births since 2014

Gwen vs Ava 157,356 births since 2014

Gwen vs Charlotte 151,872 births since 2014

Gwen vs Mia 149,779 births since 2014

Gwen vs Amelia 142,728 births since 2014

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