Winnifred
Winnifred was given to 70 girls in 2025, #2,540 among girls’ names; 5,127 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,280 Americans named Winnifred and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (25% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 6 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Winnifred by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Winnifred mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Winnifred is “a female given name from Welsh, variant of Winifred.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Winnifred?
#2,540 among girls’ names, 2025
Winnifred rose from #6,021 in 2015 to #2,540 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 43.6 per million.
166 babies in 1918, the peak
Winnifred peaked in 1918, when 166 girls were given it, #547 among girls’ names. The 70 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,540 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 62 | #2,773 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,788 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,637 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,248 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 52 | #3,090 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,914 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,762 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,378 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,981 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #6,021 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,940 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,910 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,282 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,865 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,159 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,389 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,390 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,361 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,456 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,478 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,191 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,820 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,716 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,419 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,265 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,535 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #7,063 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,193 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,235 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,617 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,553 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,545 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,239 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,267 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,289 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,296 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,916 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,675 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,750 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,274 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,823 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,060 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,235 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,429 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,710 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 31 | #1,770 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 36 | #1,574 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 36 | #1,562 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,646 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 53 | #1,253 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,968 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,541 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,659 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,490 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,263 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 45 | #1,116 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 43 | #1,113 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 57 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 39 | #1,181 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 51 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 60 | #887 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 41 | #1,100 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 57 | #916 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 60 | #877 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 67 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 62 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1930 | 66 | #893 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 86 | #759 | 0.08 |
| 1928 | 75 | #839 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 105 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1926 | 125 | #646 | 0.11 |
| 1925 | 137 | #626 | 0.11 |
| 1924 | 131 | #655 | 0.10 |
| 1923 | 145 | #605 | 0.12 |
| 1922 | 159 | #572 | 0.13 |
| 1921 | 152 | #588 | 0.12 |
| 1920 | 160 | #568 | 0.13 |
| 1919 | 135 | #607 | 0.12 |
| 1918 | 166 | #547 | 0.14 |
| 1917 | 147 | #558 | 0.14 |
| 1916 | 161 | #516 | 0.15 |
| 1915 | 139 | #540 | 0.14 |
| 1914 | 94 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1913 | 87 | #550 | 0.14 |
| 1912 | 65 | #614 | 0.12 |
| 1911 | 66 | #516 | 0.16 |
| 1910 | 47 | #619 | 0.12 |
| 1909 | 39 | #636 | 0.11 |
| 1908 | 41 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1907 | 45 | #544 | 0.14 |
| 1906 | 35 | #610 | 0.12 |
| 1905 | 25 | #732 | 0.09 |
| 1904 | 34 | #585 | 0.12 |
| 1903 | 33 | #573 | 0.13 |
| 1902 | 28 | #641 | 0.11 |
| 1901 | 32 | #546 | 0.13 |
| 1900 | 40 | #542 | 0.13 |
| 1899 | 30 | #564 | 0.13 |
| 1898 | 32 | #580 | 0.12 |
| 1897 | 24 | #643 | 0.10 |
| 1896 | 31 | #551 | 0.13 |
| 1895 | 32 | #529 | 0.14 |
| 1894 | 31 | #526 | 0.14 |
| 1893 | 27 | #546 | 0.13 |
| 1892 | 26 | #553 | 0.12 |
| 1891 | 21 | #588 | 0.11 |
| 1890 | 24 | #547 | 0.13 |
| 1889 | 21 | #566 | 0.12 |
| 1888 | 36 | #419 | 0.20 |
| 1887 | 21 | #498 | 0.14 |
| 1886 | 18 | #539 | 0.12 |
| 1885 | 22 | #458 | 0.17 |
| 1884 | 11 | #682 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 16 | #497 | 0.14 |
| 1882 | 18 | #445 | 0.17 |
| 1881 | 8 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1880 | 9 | #627 | 0.10 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Winnifred a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Winnifred has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 118 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Winnifred: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Winnifred, and how old are they?
1,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 25% of the 5,127 Americans ever recorded as Winnifred. The median Winnifred alive today is 56 years old; half are between 6 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 1,854 people named Winnifred (1,828 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,214 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 233 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 347 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 85 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 19 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 48 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 532 |
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 Winnifred born?
The states with the most babies named Winnifred are Michigan, Minnesota and Massachusetts, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and Massachusetts are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 234 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Minnesota | 206 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Massachusetts | 180 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Maine | 140 | not ranked | 4.8× |
| Illinois | 114 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Wisconsin | 102 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Washington | 97 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| California | 85 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Iowa | 74 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 73 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Winnifred is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Winnifred is most over-represented in Maine: since 1910 it was given 4.8 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 Winnifred 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 51,486 babies since 1880, Winnifred is the second most given (10.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 70 of their 354 babies (20%), again the second most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winifred | 46,200 | 284 | 1918 |
| Winnifred | 5,127 | 70 | 1918 |
| Winefred | 105 | under 5 | 1918 |
| Winniefred | 54 | under 5 | 1917 |
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 Winnifred
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 Winnifred and names like it
- Compare Winnifred and WinifredBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sWinnifred peaked in 1918.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Winnifred since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Winnifred.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Winnifred alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with WMost given first.