Gwena
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latinized form of Gwen; cited in PRSannan 1666
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Gwena is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 70Kfew records
- SGSingapore≈1 in 580Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Latinized form of Gwen; cited in PRSannan 1666.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Welsh Surnames
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gwena 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Gwena | 2 |
| US United States | — | 112 | 1 in 3M | 112 | Gwena | 85 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Gwena | 7 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Gwena | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Gwena | 15 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Gwena | 15 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 583K | — | Gwena | 2 |
| BB Barbados | #641 | — | — | — | Gwena | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Faith Gwenab. 1995ZWbadminton player
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 112 | #51,658 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1964 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1949 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1954 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1953 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1939 | 5 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Gwena a male or female name?
- Gwena is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Gwena mean, and where does it come from?
- Latinized form of Gwen; cited in PRSannan 1666. Recorded by Welsh Surnames.
- In which country does Gwena have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 168 people named Gwena in Belgium, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gwena.
- How common is the name Gwena?
- In the United States, the national register counted 112 people named Gwena in 2020, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
- How common is Gwena compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Gwena is the 641st most common given name of 1,425 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gwenaThe 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, “Gwena” — the 641st most common given name in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.