Gwendoline

Variation of Gwendolen, Welsh
"white ring"

Gwendoline Origin and Meaning

The name Gwendoline is a girl's name of Welsh origin meaning "white ring".

The Gwendoline form may introduce pronunciation confusion -- does that last syllable rhyme with wine or win or when? We vote Gwendolen as not only the most proper but the clearest spelling, followed by Gwendolyn, with Gwendoline a distant third.

Gwendoline Popularity

Famous People Named Gwendoline

  • Gwendoline Christie
    English actress
  • (Gwendoline Maud) Syrie Barnardo
    English interior decorator
  • Gwendoline Elizabeth Davies
    Welsh philanthropist and art collector
  • Gwendoline Didier
    French figure skater
  • Gwendoline Butler
    English mystery novelist
  • Gwendoline "Gwen" Harwood
    Australian poet
  • Gwendoline Alice Porter
    British Olympic runner
  • Gwendoline "Gwen" Raverat
    English artist and writer, granddaughter of Charles Darwin
  • Gwendoline Gaelle Ramos Ruais
    Miss World Philippines 2011
  • Gwendoline See
    Hian Yeo, Singaporean,born American actress
  • Samantha Gwendoline Sheffield
    birth name of Samantha Cameron, wife of David Cameron

Gwendoline in Pop Culture

  • Gwendoline (1886)
    opera by Emmanuel Chabrier
  • Gwendoline
    character in Céline's "Mort à crédit" (1936); voracious sexual partner to Ferdinand (the narrator) on channel crossing
  • Sweet Gwendoline
    character created by bondage artist John Willie and 1984 film "Gwendoline"
  • Gwendoline Mary
    character in Enid Blyton's book series 'Malory Towers'
  • 'By far the most popular form in Britain of Gwendolen
    at a peak in the 1920s but now quietly used.'

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