Gladwyn
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the Old English personal name Glædwine, literally ‘joyful friend’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/ɡlædwɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gladwyn is a male given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- ZASouth Africa
- PHPhilippines
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the Old English personal name Glædwine, literally ‘joyful friend’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Henry Gladwyn Jebbb. 1826GBEnglish cleric and novelist
- Joshua Gladwyn Jebbb. 1839British Army officer (1839–1901)
- Sydney Jebbb. 1871GBnot in their usual nameEnglish army officer
- Gladwyn Kingsley Nobleb. 1894USU.S. zoologist and herpetologist (1894–1940)
- Gladwyn M. Childsb. 1896USAmerican anthropologist and missionary (1896–1975)
- Gladwyn Jebbb. 1900GBacting Secretary-General of the United Nations (1900-1996)
- Gladwyn Bushb. 1914GBCaymanian painter (1914-2003)
- Gladwyn Kingsley Nobleb. 1923USAmerican anthropologist
- Inigo Thomasb. 1962GBnot in their usual nameBritish writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 30 | #564 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1927 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 7 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 does the name Gladwyn mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Old English personal name Glædwine, literally ‘joyful friend’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Gladwyn?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡlædwɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Gladwyn a male or female name?
- Gladwyn is a male 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.
- In which country does Gladwyn have the most bearers?
- Gladwyn is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Gladwyn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gladwynThe 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, “Gladwyn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.