Winford
Winford was last recorded in 2009, when 6 babies were given it; 4,503 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Winford and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (32% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 58 and 78.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Winford by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Winford?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,408, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
116 babies in 1928, the peak
Winford peaked in 1928, when 116 boys were given it, #576 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #12,408 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,433 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,384 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,983 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,216 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,231 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #7,147 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,798 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,727 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,224 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 9 | #4,835 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,584 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,688 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,225 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,515 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,141 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,606 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,559 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,471 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,597 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,258 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 22 | #2,130 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,311 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,401 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,655 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 31 | #1,595 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 31 | #1,544 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 21 | #1,858 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 32 | #1,392 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 27 | #1,505 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 40 | #1,192 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 32 | #1,383 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 29 | #1,485 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 33 | #1,372 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 51 | #1,079 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 54 | #1,066 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 53 | #1,070 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 62 | #985 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 57 | #1,016 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,232 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 56 | #1,006 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 61 | #969 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 57 | #993 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 67 | #882 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 67 | #861 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 59 | #917 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 62 | #876 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 69 | #822 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 60 | #888 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 79 | #776 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 71 | #792 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 61 | #797 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 69 | #753 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 82 | #713 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 83 | #704 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 95 | #623 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 76 | #696 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 75 | #690 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 74 | #714 | 0.07 |
| 1937 | 80 | #670 | 0.08 |
| 1936 | 98 | #585 | 0.09 |
| 1935 | 91 | #617 | 0.09 |
| 1934 | 89 | #636 | 0.09 |
| 1933 | 81 | #649 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 96 | #606 | 0.09 |
| 1931 | 86 | #642 | 0.08 |
| 1930 | 97 | #628 | 0.09 |
| 1929 | 91 | #648 | 0.08 |
| 1928 | 116 | #576 | 0.10 |
| 1927 | 108 | #600 | 0.10 |
| 1926 | 99 | #636 | 0.09 |
| 1925 | 108 | #610 | 0.10 |
| 1924 | 107 | #618 | 0.09 |
| 1923 | 110 | #608 | 0.10 |
| 1922 | 89 | #696 | 0.08 |
| 1921 | 98 | #655 | 0.09 |
| 1920 | 98 | #639 | 0.09 |
| 1919 | 89 | #656 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 89 | #657 | 0.09 |
| 1917 | 61 | #820 | 0.07 |
| 1916 | 63 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1915 | 61 | #775 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 31 | #1,016 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 34 | #833 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 27 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,034 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,043 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,272 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,111 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,342 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,314 | 0.04 |
| 1901 | 9 | #777 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,304 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,197 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,285 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 7 | #973 | 0.06 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,123 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 6 | #971 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Winford a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Winford has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 98 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Winford: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Winford, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 32% of the 4,503 Americans ever recorded as Winford. The median Winford alive today is 69 years old; half are between 58 and 78.
The 2020 Census counted 1,555 people named Winford (22 women and girls, 1,533 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,811 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 276 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 700 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 146 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13 |
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 Winford born?
The states with the most babies named Winford are Texas, Alabama and North Carolina, with 45% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 409 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 408 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| North Carolina | 309 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Kentucky | 247 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Arkansas | 193 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Georgia | 189 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Oklahoma | 167 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Tennessee | 160 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 158 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Missouri | 127 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Winford is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Winford is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 3.7 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 boys’ 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 Winford 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 15,348 babies since 1880, Winford is the second most given (29% 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 Winford
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 Winford and names like it
- Compare Winford and WinfredBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWinford peaked in 1928.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Winford since 1910.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Winford.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Winford alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.