Winter
Winter was given to 732 girls in 2025, #426 among girls’ names; 16,656 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,500 Americans named Winter and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Winter by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Winter mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Winter is “a unisex given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Winter?
#426 among girls’ names, 2025
Winter rose from #547 in 2015 to #426 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.32 to 0.46 per 1,000.
1,118 babies in 2022, the peak
Winter peaked in 2022, when 1,118 babies were given it (1,053 girls, #305 among girls’ names). The 809 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 72% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 732 | #426 | 0.46 |
| 2024 | 819 | #385 | 0.51 |
| 2023 | 831 | #369 | 0.52 |
| 2022 | 1,053 | #305 | 0.64 |
| 2021 | 1,013 | #322 | 0.62 |
| 2020 | 1,009 | #315 | 0.62 |
| 2019 | 985 | #325 | 0.59 |
| 2018 | 799 | #388 | 0.47 |
| 2017 | 709 | #446 | 0.41 |
| 2016 | 622 | #503 | 0.35 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 568 | #547 | 0.32 |
| 2014 | 561 | #553 | 0.31 |
| 2013 | 433 | #659 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 358 | #772 | 0.20 |
| 2011 | 240 | #1,040 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 220 | #1,121 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 261 | #1,014 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 238 | #1,095 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 178 | #1,364 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 206 | #1,182 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 190 | #1,209 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 205 | #1,116 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 182 | #1,184 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 205 | #1,049 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 206 | #1,043 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 173 | #1,165 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 169 | #1,156 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 189 | #1,044 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 177 | #1,072 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 173 | #1,075 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 135 | #1,257 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 122 | #1,364 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 89 | #1,689 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 79 | #1,825 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 73 | #1,925 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 76 | #1,873 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,866 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 60 | #2,006 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,676 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 65 | #1,783 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,080 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 78 | #1,489 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 92 | #1,318 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 101 | #1,276 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 109 | #1,208 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 140 | #1,029 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 241 | #706 | 0.15 |
| 1978 | 137 | #1,000 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,835 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,404 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,153 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,248 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,067 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,279 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,975 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,685 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #6,031 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,795 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,641 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,556 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,607 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Winter a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 16,656 Americans recorded as Winter, 94% are girls and 6% boys. In 2025 it went to 732 girls and 77 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Winter: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Winter, and how old are they?
16,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 16,656 Americans ever recorded as Winter. The median Winter alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 10,006 people named Winter (9,214 women and girls, 792 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,964 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 622 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,630 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,700 |
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 Winter born?
The states with the most babies named Winter are Texas, California and Florida, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 69 | #476 | 0.7× |
| California | 65 | #574 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 57 | #325 | 0.8× |
| New York | 42 | #495 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 29 | #401 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 28 | #414 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #412 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 26 | #350 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 25 | #332 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 23 | #469 | 0.7× |
Where Winter is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Winter is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1954 it was given 1.1 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 Winter 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 27,724 babies since 1880, Winter is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 809 of their 1,512 babies (54%), again the most given.
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 Winter
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 Winter and names like it
- Compare Winter and WynterBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sWinter peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Winter since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Winter.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Winter alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with WMost given first.