Winona — #737 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Winona

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,481 babies named Winona between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Winona currently holds the #737 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 381 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Winona performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 2,430 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Winona shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 775 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Winona in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Winona in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 12,481 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.