Entry № 3826 · Welsh origin

Guinevere Guinevere — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GWIN-eh-veer /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Fair phantom (King Arthur's queen)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "fair phantom (king arthur's queen)".

Guinevere is from the Welsh Gwenhwyfargwen (white, fair, blessed) + hwyfar (smooth, soft, phantom).

Subject of T. H.

Fair phantom (King Arthur's queen) — a Welsh name.

The name in its native script.

Gwenhwyfar
Transliteration
Gwenhwyfar
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡwɪn.ə.vɪər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Guinevere stands.

Guinevere does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Guineveres before her.

Real people
Guinevere
Legendary queen of Britain.
In fiction
Guinevere
Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.
1485

Names connected to Guinevere.

The number behind Guinevere.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Guinevere reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.