Comments for GWENDOLEN:

She was also a great character in Oscar Wilde's play, "The Importance of Being Ernest."

-- Anonymous User  9/2/2005

The element "dolen" can mean "bow, circle" as well as "ring". This could have originally referred to the moon ("white circle"). A beautiful name.

-- Elly747  10/29/2005

Gwendolen is such a beautiful, Welsh name. I also like Gwendolyn.

-- Lizard435  2/15/2007

I love this name and I prefer this spelling to Gwendolyn. I also like that "Gwen" could be used as a nickname.

-- Hola123  4/15/2007

Gwendolen Harleth is a character in George Eliot's novel Daniel Deronda.

-- Kate  6/4/2007

The more I look at this spelling, the more I like it. I plan on naming my next daughter Gwendolen. It's such a beautiful and magical name.

-- RedGyl  6/12/2007

Fun! Are you going to use Wendy as a nickname (I just think it's cute)

-- mhavril39  8/19/2007

Gwendolen Chant is a character in Diana Wynne Jones' book Charmed Life, and she's horrible. There's also another horrible Gwendolen in Enid Blyton's Malory Towers series (actually Gwendoline Mary). Consequently, I don't like the name much.

-- Anonymous User  11/16/2007

I really like this spelling of the name. Gwendolyn is pretty, too, but I prefer Gwendolen. Also, Gwen is a pretty diminuitive.

-- erb816  4/10/2008

This name stops sounding good to me after the first syllable, but of course girls with this name are going to be called Gwen anyway.

-- slight night shiver  4/23/2008

Gwendolyn is my name and I go by Gwen most of the time! I'm rarely called Gwendolyn unless I meet someone new. I really love my name and I feel quite special inheriting the name from my grandmother.

-- XxGwen  11/19/2008

I really like this name, but after 'Gwen' the name starts to rush.

-- smw  3/1/2009

In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Gwendolen is a queen who goes to war with her husband after he betrays her for another woman. She wins, buries her dead husband, kills the other woman and the woman's daughter, and proceeds to rule with wisdom and kindness. Some Arthurian legends also give Merlin a wife named Gwendolen. I love this name, though I prefer it spelled -lyn rather than -len. I'm a sucker for Gwen names.

-- britto08  11/22/2009

In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Gwendolen is a queen who goes to war with her husband after he betrays her for another woman. She wins, buries her dead husband, kills the other woman and the woman's daughter, and proceeds to rule with wisdom and kindness. Some Arthurian legends also give Merlin a wife named Gwendolen. I love this name, though I prefer it spelled -lyn rather than -len. I'm a sucker for Gwen names.

-- britto08  11/22/2009

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