Gwendoline
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Breton/French name from gwen “white, fair, blessed” + dolen/dol “ring, circle” or related Welsh elements
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡwɛndɔlin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gwendoline is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 6.9K
- GYGuyana1 in 6.3K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 288 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Breton/French name from gwen “white, fair, blessed” + dolen/dol “ring, circle” or related Welsh elements.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gwendoline is read(measured from records)
Gwendoline is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French68%
Breton/French name from gwen “white, fair, blessed” + dolen/dol “ring, circle” or related Welsh elements.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Composite of Gwendal and Line; Celtic origin, meaning “sacred value.”
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
a female given name derived from Gwendolen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English27%
A female given name from Welsh, an anglicized form of Welsh Gwendolen.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Arthur's queen in Welsh legend
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Gwenhwyfar [Guinevere]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Gwendoline, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gwendoline 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 | #492 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 20K | Gwendoline | 288 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 4 | Gwendoline | 48 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Gwendoline | 16 |
| BE Belgium | #873 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 6 | Gwendoline | 58 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Gwendoline | 12 |
| US United States | — | 717 | 1 in 464K | 714 | Gwendoline | 86 |
| GY Guyana | — | 119 | 1 in 6.3K | 119 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Gwendoline Eastlake-Smithb. 1883GBBritish tennis player (1883–1941)
- Gwendoline Butlerb. 1922GBBritish writer
- Gwendoline Hamonb. 1970FRFrench actress
- Joanne Goodeb. 1972GBnot in their usual nameEnglish badminton player
- Gwendoline Yeob. 1977SGSingaporean actress
- Gwendoline Christieb. 1978GBBritish actress (born 1978)
- Gwendoline Rileyb. 1979GBBritish writer
- Gwendoline Didierb. 1986FRfigure skater
- Gwendoline Taylorb. 1987NZNew Zealand actress
- Gwendoline Mourletactress
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)
Attested in 51 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 20K | #1,629 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 714 | #15,903 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 119 | #475 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2015 | 6 | #1,231 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1980 | 4 | #481 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #15,903 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2009 | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
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 Gwendoline?
- In the etymology graph, Gwendolyn, Gwendolen and Guendolen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gwendoline?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡwɛndɔlin/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Gwendoline a male or female name?
- Gwendoline 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 Gwendoline mean, and where does it come from?
- Breton/French name from gwen “white, fair, blessed” + dolen/dol “ring, circle” or related Welsh elements. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Gwendoline have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Gwendoline in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gwendoline.
- How common is the name Gwendoline?
- In the United States, the national register counted 717 people named Gwendoline in 2020, about 1 in 464 thousand residents.
- How common is Gwendoline compared with other names?
- In France, Gwendoline is the 492nd most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gwendolineThe 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, “Gwendoline” — the 492nd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.