Gwen

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Welsh name

1) Short form of names beginning with Gwen- [1] [2]

2) Welsh gwen, gwyn = 'white', 'shining', 'holy' [1]

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Related Names

Gwen
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Gwyn
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Swedish

Combinations

See Gwendolen, Gwenfrewi, Gwenhael, Gwenhwyfar

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Gwen
Genitive: Gwens
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Gwen
Genitive: Gwenin
Partitive: Gweniä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Gwen
Genitive: Gwens
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Gwen
Genitive: Gwens

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[3]
46 93 46 90 0 3
Denmark Denmark[4]
23
n.a.
23
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
27
n.a.
27 0 0
Norway Norway[6]
34
n.a.
34
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[7]
0 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[8]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Gwen.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  5. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  7. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/