Guenièvre
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Forme médiévale de Gwenn; origine celtique, « blanche, douce »
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Guenièvre is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.3M(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2.2M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈53 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Guenievre in FR France, BE Belgium.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Forme médiévale de Gwenn; origine celtique, « blanche, douce ».
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Guenièvre counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | listed | Guenievre | 61 |
| BE Belgium | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Guenievre | 3 |
| CF Central African Republic | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | — | listed | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the french-names-benoist-2009 register; ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025); the il-grande-libro-nomi-bebe-2020 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Guenièvre is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Forme française ancienne/variante de Geneviève.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Celtic name linked to « white/fair ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Guenièvre?
- In the etymology graph, Jennifer, Jenny and Jennie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Guenièvre a male or female name?
- Guenièvre is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Guenièvre mean?
- Recorded meaning: Forme médiévale de Gwenn; origine celtique, « blanche, douce ».
- In which country does Guenièvre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 53 people named Guenièvre in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guenievre.
- How common is the name Guenièvre?
- Mondonomo estimates about 53 people in France have Guenièvre as their first given name, about 1 in 1.3 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Guenièvre?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gueni%C3%A8vreThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Guenièvre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.