How popular is the name Gwyn?

Gwyn ranks 2,208th among girls' names in US records, with 5,205 births since 1922. Over the past decade it accounts for 261.

Is Gwyn a unisex name?

No. Gwyn is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1962, when 184 children were given the name. It has been in use for 103 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Gwin, Gwynn, Gwynne, Gwinn. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#2,208 of girl names

Pronounced G W IH1 N (ARPABET)

Gwyn is a girls' name, and first appears in 1922. It has been given to 5,205 children — the 2,208th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 261 births across the past decade, against a peak of 184 in a single year. That peak was in 1962.

Four other spellings are counted in that total — Gwin, Gwynn, Gwynne and one more — because they are pronounced identically.

1962Girls: 184Boys: 6

These spellings sound identical to Gwyn and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Gwyn?: Gwyn ranks 2,208th among girls' names in US records, with 5,205 births since 1922. Over the past decade it accounts for 261.
Is Gwyn a unisex name?: No. Gwyn is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Gwyn most popular?: 1962, when 184 children were given the name. It has been in use for 103 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Gwyn spelled?: Gwin, Gwynn, Gwynne, Gwinn. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.