Entry № 3915 · Welsh origin

Gwendolyn Gwendolyn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"White ring; fair"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "white ring; fair".

Gwendolyn is a variant spelling of Gwendolyn, meaning white ring, and fair.

A fresh spelling of a well-loved name, it keeps the familiar sound with a look all its own.

White ring; fair — a much-loved spelling.

The name in its native script.

Gwendolyn
Transliteration
Gwendolyn
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Gwendolyn stands.

Gwendolyn 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.

Gwendolyns before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Gwendolyn.

The number behind Gwendolyn.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gwendolyn reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.