Win
Win was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,870 among boys’ names; 195 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Win by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Win mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Win is “a diminutive of the male given name Winston.”
Also “a diminutive of the female given name Winifred.”
Clipping of Winifred.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Win?
#8,870 among boys’ names, 2025
Win rose from #13,939 in 2015 to #8,870 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 5.3 per million.
16 babies in 2022, the peak
Win peaked in 2022, when 16 boys were given it, #5,849 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,870 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,822 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,754 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,849 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,316 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 6 | #12,057 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 6 | #12,065 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,793 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,677 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,939 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #12,211 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,407 | 3.0 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,547 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,827 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,445 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,184 | 2.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,314 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,581 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 6 | #4,055 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 9 | #3,025 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,545 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,792 | 4.7 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,816 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,788 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,243 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Win a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 195 Americans recorded as Win, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Win: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Win, and how old are they?
An estimated 177 Americans named Win and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 4 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,636 people named Win (470 women and girls, 1,166 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 123 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Win rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,887 babies since 1880, Win is the fourth most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 257 babies (3.5%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Win and names like it
- Compare Win and WynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sWin peaked in 2022.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Win.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Win alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with WMost given first.