Gwendelyn is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Gwendelyn in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Gwendelyn in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Gwendelyn by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Gwendelyn ranks at #9,905. That means there are 9,904 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Gwendelyn. Girls named Gwendelyn have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 3,592 Gwendelyn ranked higher than ever in 1959. By comparison, there have been 92 years in which the first name Gwendelyn has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2021. In general, parents name their daughters Gwendelyn only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Gwendelyn was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Gwendelyn continues to be a precious jewel: 5 newborns were named Gwendelyn that year, ranking #13,280 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Gwendelyn, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 2.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a G. The most common first letters for girls' names are A and S, while U and X are the least common first letters of girls' names.
With nine letters, the name Gwendelyn is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that if 2.1% of all girls' names begin with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with a G and are extremely popular, for example Grace, currently the most common girls' name with G.
If your name is Gwendelyn and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Gwendelyn, you can simply say:
Goat
Windmill
Elephant
Nut
Dinosaur
Elephant
Lion
Yoyo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Gwendelyn
Gwendelyn
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
W
E
N
D
E
L
Y
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
G
W
E
N
D
E
L
Y
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Gwendelyn sounds like this:
