Gwenda

Where Gwenda comes from

The dictionaries list Gwenda as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1921
    First appearance
    #2,762 among girls, 12 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1942
    Gwenda Thomas born
    British politician
  3. 1943
    Gwenda Blair born
    American journalist, university teacher and biographer
  4. 1952
    Peak, #884
    109 babies named Gwenda — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,110.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Gwenda Blair · American journalist, university teacher and biographer, born 1943
  • Gwenda Thomas · British politician, born 1942
  • Gwenda Louise Davis · Australian botanist, 1911–1993
  • Gwenda Matthews · British high and long jumper, born 1944
  • Gwenda Bond · US editor, critic and author, born 1976

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.