Winfred
Winfred was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 10,455 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,540 Americans named Winfred and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 55 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Winfred by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Winfred mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Winfred is “a male given name from Old English.” Its etymology gives the senses “joy” (wynn) and “peace” (friþ).
From Old English Wynnfriþ, from wynn (“joy”) + friþ (“peace”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Winfred?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #14,083, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
260 babies in 1922, the peak
Winfred peaked in 1922, when 260 babies were given it (244 boys, #387 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #14,083 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,963 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,944 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,771 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #14,147 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #12,032 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,667 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,522 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,722 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,749 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (137)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #14,413 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,824 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,742 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,396 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #10,099 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,684 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,504 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,496 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,378 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,858 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,403 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,867 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,175 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,964 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,459 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,807 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,099 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,535 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,299 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,408 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 28 | #2,248 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,209 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,883 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 35 | #1,760 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 25 | #2,157 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 27 | #2,014 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 33 | #1,772 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 38 | #1,600 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 44 | #1,448 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 28 | #1,942 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 25 | #2,011 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 42 | #1,430 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 33 | #1,644 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 32 | #1,628 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 44 | #1,289 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,222 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 37 | #1,416 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 55 | #1,108 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 57 | #1,092 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 50 | #1,109 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 54 | #1,016 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,116 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 85 | #793 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 90 | #785 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 95 | #778 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 107 | #752 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 137 | #668 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 123 | #690 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 148 | #642 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 139 | #651 | 0.07 |
| 1958 | 131 | #667 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 169 | #592 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 193 | #545 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 163 | #577 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 145 | #612 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 150 | #588 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 164 | #544 | 0.08 |
| 1951 | 146 | #571 | 0.08 |
| 1950 | 133 | #590 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 130 | #599 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 126 | #606 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 131 | #596 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 109 | #618 | 0.07 |
| 1945 | 140 | #506 | 0.10 |
| 1944 | 121 | #550 | 0.09 |
| 1943 | 148 | #512 | 0.10 |
| 1942 | 147 | #506 | 0.11 |
| 1941 | 135 | #509 | 0.11 |
| 1940 | 155 | #465 | 0.13 |
| 1939 | 113 | #538 | 0.10 |
| 1938 | 155 | #466 | 0.14 |
| 1937 | 158 | #445 | 0.15 |
| 1936 | 135 | #487 | 0.13 |
| 1935 | 146 | #471 | 0.14 |
| 1934 | 139 | #486 | 0.13 |
| 1933 | 136 | #482 | 0.14 |
| 1932 | 170 | #428 | 0.16 |
| 1931 | 163 | #442 | 0.16 |
| 1930 | 185 | #432 | 0.17 |
| 1929 | 190 | #430 | 0.18 |
| 1928 | 198 | #424 | 0.18 |
| 1927 | 192 | #442 | 0.17 |
| 1926 | 203 | #425 | 0.18 |
| 1925 | 208 | #416 | 0.19 |
| 1924 | 231 | #403 | 0.20 |
| 1923 | 230 | #393 | 0.21 |
| 1922 | 244 | #387 | 0.22 |
| 1921 | 223 | #408 | 0.20 |
| 1920 | 228 | #395 | 0.21 |
| 1919 | 222 | #393 | 0.23 |
| 1918 | 211 | #407 | 0.21 |
| 1917 | 214 | #386 | 0.23 |
| 1916 | 192 | #401 | 0.22 |
| 1915 | 146 | #455 | 0.17 |
| 1914 | 116 | #446 | 0.18 |
| 1913 | 96 | #435 | 0.19 |
| 1912 | 65 | #496 | 0.15 |
| 1911 | 23 | #666 | 0.10 |
| 1910 | 18 | #728 | 0.09 |
| 1909 | 20 | #613 | 0.12 |
| 1908 | 20 | #584 | 0.13 |
| 1907 | 19 | #590 | 0.13 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,001 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 18 | #573 | 0.14 |
| 1904 | 13 | #685 | 0.10 |
| 1903 | 9 | #845 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 17 | #535 | 0.14 |
| 1900 | 13 | #739 | 0.09 |
| 1899 | 13 | #581 | 0.12 |
| 1898 | 12 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,054 | 0.05 |
| 1896 | 9 | #824 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 13 | #608 | 0.11 |
| 1894 | 10 | #727 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 12 | #614 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 8 | #858 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 7 | #837 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 13 | #565 | 0.12 |
| 1889 | 12 | #579 | 0.11 |
| 1887 | 8 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 12 | #576 | 0.11 |
| 1885 | 9 | #697 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 15 | #503 | 0.13 |
| 1883 | 11 | #596 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 9 | #688 | 0.08 |
| 1881 | 12 | #532 | 0.12 |
| 1880 | 12 | #569 | 0.11 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Winfred a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,455 Americans recorded as Winfred, 3% are girls and 97% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Winfred: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Winfred, and how old are they?
3,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 34% of the 10,455 Americans ever recorded as Winfred. The median Winfred alive today is 67 years old; half are between 55 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 4,050 people named Winfred (292 women and girls, 3,758 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,288 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 523 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,780 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 687 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 362 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 135 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 42 |
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 Winfred born?
The states with the most babies named Winfred are North Carolina, Texas and Georgia, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 961 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Texas | 880 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 665 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Alabama | 558 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Virginia | 509 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Arkansas | 433 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Tennessee | 394 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Mississippi | 323 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Kentucky | 314 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Missouri | 307 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Winfred is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Winfred is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 3.0 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 Winfred 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, Winfred is the most given (68% 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 Winfred
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 Winfred and names like it
- Compare Winfred and WinfordBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWinfred peaked in 1922.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Winfred since 1910.
- Old English namesWiktionary’s origin for Winfred: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Winfred.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Winfred alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.