Winter — #385 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Winter

The Social Security Administration has registered 14,874 babies named Winter between 1954 and 2024, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Winter currently holds the #385 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 1,051 babies received it in a single year. Winter is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 958 additional births since 1974.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Winter performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,490 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Winter shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,438 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Winter in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Winter 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 14,874 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.