Windsor
Windsor is given to both girls and boys: 22 girls and 15 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,713 among girls’ names and #6,116 among boys’, #6,949 among all names counting both); 1,040 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Windsor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Windsor mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Windsor is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “bank with a windlass, winch by the riverside” (literally) and “reel, spool” (windel) and “bank, shore” (ōra).
Inherited from Middle English Wyndelsore, from Old English Windlesōra (“Windsor”, literally “bank with a windlass, winch by the riverside”), from *windel (“reel, winch”; > Middle English windel (“reel, spool”)) + ōra (“bank, shore”).
/ˈwɪndzɚ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Windsor?
#6,116 among boys’ names, 2025
Windsor rose from #7,465 in 2015 to #6,116 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.7 to 8.8 per million.
57 babies in 2024, the peak
Windsor peaked in 2024, when 57 babies were given it (17 boys, #5,641 among boys’ names). The 37 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 65% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,713 | 15 | #6,116 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,815 | 17 | #5,641 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,940 | 9 | #8,870 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,288 | 8 | #9,770 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,316 | 11 | #7,553 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,999 | 15 | #5,960 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,537 | 12 | #7,142 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,654 | 15 | #6,017 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,325 | 9 | #8,794 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,240 | 14 | #6,324 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,483 | 11 | #7,465 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,443 | 10 | #8,087 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,240 | 6 | #12,046 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,202 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,748 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #20,064 | 5 | #14,412 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,771 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,423 | 10 | #8,138 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,923 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,072 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 6 | #16,012 | 10 | #7,506 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,209 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,874 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,636 | 6 | #9,857 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,510 | 5 | #11,259 |
| 1997 | 5 | #16,076 | 8 | #7,252 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #10,278 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 9 | #6,199 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #9,777 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #9,185 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 6 | #6,696 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,456 | 8 | #5,129 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #7,315 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #7,346 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #7,050 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,830 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 5 | #6,481 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #5,022 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 9 | #2,975 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 8 | #3,278 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 7 | #3,640 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 6 | #4,026 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 7 | #3,609 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 6 | #3,936 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 5 | #4,543 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,932 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 9 | #2,960 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 6 | #3,720 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 5 | #4,245 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 7 | #3,320 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 8 | #3,012 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 5 | #4,189 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 9 | #2,570 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 6 | #3,423 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 7 | #3,130 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,929 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 8 | #2,827 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 8 | #2,862 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 7 | #3,170 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 6 | #3,541 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 6 | #3,670 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 6 | #3,637 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 5 | #4,308 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 6 | #3,991 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 10 | #2,758 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 5 | #4,712 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 10 | #2,908 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #4,185 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 16 | #2,086 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 6 | #4,338 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 9 | #3,167 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 9 | #3,244 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 11 | #2,798 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 7 | #3,809 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 7 | #3,732 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 7 | #3,720 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 11 | #2,558 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 7 | #3,505 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,898 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Windsor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,040 Americans recorded as Windsor, 46% are girls and 54% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Windsor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Windsor, and how old are they?
An estimated 814 Americans named Windsor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 854 people named Windsor (380 women and girls, 474 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 593 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Windsor
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Windsor and names like it
- Compare Windsor and AtleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sWindsor peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Windsor since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Windsor: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Windsor.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Windsor alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with WMost given first.