Baby name
RISING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Gwendolyn
/GWEN · doh · lin/
Meaning
“White, radiant, blessed”
Welsh name from 'gwen' (white, fair, blessed) and 'dolen' (ring or bow); Gwendolyn Brooks became the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950.
Nicknames
gwen · wendy
Vibe
strongelegant
How it ages.
Vintage and literary; currently on the rise in the US as parents rediscover long Welsh names.
The cultural moment.
Rare in the US through most of the late 20th century; climbing since 2012, now in the top 300.