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Gwen Boys

The U.S. popularity history of Gwen: every year it appeared on the national list since 1916, with 294 recorded births in total. All figures come from official Social Security card application data.

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Total recorded births
294
Peak year
1949 #1975
Years on the list
40
10-year trend
-50.0%

In the 1940s ·

Popularity history

1916–1970

YearBirthsRank
19516#3509
19526#3512
19539#2786
19546#3595
19556#3661
19566#3695
195711#2542
19585#4177
19599#2913
19607#3472
19616#3793
19627#3436
19649#2937
19675#4195
19706#4435

Most recent years shown. The full curve above covers every year the name appeared.

Where {name} was most used in 1949

State-level records for this name and year are not published (names with fewer than 5 births in a state are suppressed).

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