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Gender
Feminine
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Origin of the Name Gwendolen
Welsh
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Usage of the Name Gwendolen
Welsh
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Meaning of the Name Gwendolen
The name Gwendolen is derived from the Welsh elements "gwen" - "fair, white" and "dolen" - "ring".
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Famous Bearers
Bearers of the name include Gwendolen "Gwen" John (1876 - 1939), a Welsh painter;
F. Gwendolen Rees (1906 - 1994), a Welsh-English zoologist and parasitologist.
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Interesting Facts about Gwendolen
According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (The History of the Kings of Britain), Queen Gwendolen was a legendary queen of Britain, the wife of King Locrinus of the Britons.
Gwendolen Harleth is also the heroine of George Eliot's novel Daniel Deronda.
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