Windy
Windy was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,831 among girls’ names; 4,983 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,630 Americans named Windy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 46 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Windy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Windy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Windy is “a female given name.”
Often a diminutive of names starting with Wi-, such as Wilhelmina and Winifred, with -y. Influenced by windy.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Windy?
#14,831 among girls’ names, 2025
Windy fell from #14,405 in 2015 to #14,831 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.9 to 3.7 per million.
310 babies in 1975, the peak
Windy peaked in 1975, when 310 girls were given it, #553 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,831 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,084 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,183 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,135 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,981 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,384 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #14,030 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,121 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,405 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,880 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 9 | #11,909 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,155 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,749 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,218 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,184 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,323 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,499 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,694 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,305 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,856 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,476 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,443 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,318 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,558 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,692 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,790 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,404 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,872 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,667 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,236 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,673 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,372 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,809 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,395 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,470 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 45 | #2,441 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 56 | #2,021 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 48 | #2,192 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,880 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 78 | #1,488 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 79 | #1,474 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 87 | #1,416 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 146 | #1,003 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 153 | #976 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 227 | #731 | 0.14 |
| 1978 | 220 | #721 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 215 | #720 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 251 | #624 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 310 | #553 | 0.21 |
| 1974 | 270 | #587 | 0.18 |
| 1973 | 242 | #628 | 0.17 |
| 1972 | 270 | #595 | 0.18 |
| 1971 | 249 | #655 | 0.15 |
| 1970 | 220 | #707 | 0.13 |
| 1969 | 178 | #756 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 159 | #800 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 161 | #786 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 83 | #1,177 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 69 | #1,322 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 65 | #1,404 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 59 | #1,463 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 61 | #1,428 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,578 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 62 | #1,402 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 52 | #1,514 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 54 | #1,467 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 33 | #1,926 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,735 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,836 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,292 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,234 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,198 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,101 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,779 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,661 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,877 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Windy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Windy has been given almost only to girls: 12 boys in 76 years of records.
Girls and boys named Windy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Windy, and how old are they?
4,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 4,983 Americans ever recorded as Windy. The median Windy alive today is 51 years old; half are between 46 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 4,536 people named Windy (4,422 women and girls, 114 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,695 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 492 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,060 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 799 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 194 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 81 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Windy born?
The states with the most babies named Windy are California, Texas and North Carolina, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 618 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 390 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 293 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Georgia | 219 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Florida | 197 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| South Carolina | 184 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Alabama | 142 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Louisiana | 142 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 125 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 90 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Windy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Windy is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1948 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Windy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,921 babies since 1880, Windy is the most given (84% of them).
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Windy
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 Windy and names like it
- Compare Windy and WindiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sWindy peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Windy since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Windy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Windy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with WMost given first.