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Gwenda

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Gwenda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 884th, in 1952.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
1952109 births
Best rank
#884in 1952
Since 1921
2,264people given the name
Babies named Gwenda, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

2,264 girls have been named Gwenda in the United States since 1921, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1952, with 109 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 109 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1954, and the 1950s alone account for 40%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Gwenda
1920s46
1930s183
1940s451
1950s895
1960s484
1970s161
1980s28
2000s5
2010s11

In 1952, its biggest year

Gwenda was the 884th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1952 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1952.

Names that rose and fell with Gwenda

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.