Gwendolen
GWEN-doh-len
A Welsh name commonly taken to mean “white-browed” or “fair-fronted.”
Meaning
The 19th-century sources in your excerpts connect Gwendolen with Welsh forms such as gwen and gwendal. They gloss it mainly as “white-browed,” “fair-fronted,” or “fair, beautiful,” though one source notes an alternate folk explanation of “the lady of the bow.”
Origin
Welshfeminine
Fun fact
One excerpt says the name appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s legend of Locrine and Gwendolen, which helped keep it in literary circulation.