Entry № 3918 · Welsh origin

Gwenivere Gwenivere — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Fair and smooth"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "fair and smooth".

Gwenivere is a variant spelling of Guinevere, meaning fair, white and smooth.

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

Fair and smooth — a much-loved spelling.

The name in its native script.

Gwenivere
Transliteration
Gwenivere
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Gwenivere stands.

Gwenivere 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.

Gweniveres before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Gwenivere.

The number behind Gwenivere.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gwenivere reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.