The name Gwendolen is usually given to a Girl.
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The origin of the name lies in Welsh.
Gwendolen is pronounced as GWYN-doh-len
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Pronunciation
GWYN-doh-len
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Meaning
Possibly means "white ring", derived from
Welsh gwen meaning "white, blessed" and dolen meaning "ring, loop". This name appears in
Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th-century chronicles, written in the Latin form
Guendoloena, where it belongs to
An ancient queen of the Britons who defeats her ex-husband in battle [1].
Geoffrey later used it in
Vita Merlini for the wife of the prophet
Merlin [2].
An alternate theory claims that the name arose from a misreading of the masculine name
Guendoleu by
Geoffrey [3].This name was not regularly given to people until the 19th century [4][3]. It was used by
George Eliot for a character in her novel
Daniel Deronda (1876).
Pronunciation
/ˈɡwɛn.də.lɪn/(English)