Winton
Winton was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,621 among boys’ names; 1,945 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Winton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Winton?
#10,621 among boys’ names, 2025
Winton fell from #8,002 in 2015 to #10,621 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 4.1 per million.
78 babies in 1920, the peak
Winton peaked in 1920, when 78 boys were given it, #743 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,621 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #12,266 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,871 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 6 | #12,247 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,966 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,842 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,691 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,639 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,610 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 10 | #8,002 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #7,523 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #8,073 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,667 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #12,213 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #12,141 | 3.1 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,980 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,865 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,610 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,507 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,497 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,807 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,434 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #6,081 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,478 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,828 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,946 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,395 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,497 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,980 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,875 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,239 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,944 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,788 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,761 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,953 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,465 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,244 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,482 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,542 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,403 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,828 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 6 | #5,085 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,426 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,640 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,828 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,309 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,127 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,541 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,245 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,268 | 7.5 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,542 | 6.0 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,536 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,361 | 6.3 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,995 | 8.5 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,312 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,611 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,171 | 7.1 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,272 | 6.5 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,493 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,135 | 7.3 |
| 1954 | 20 | #1,759 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 23 | #1,627 | 11.7 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,936 | 8.7 |
| 1951 | 28 | #1,428 | 14.9 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,108 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 18 | #1,818 | 10.1 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,458 | 14.8 |
| 1947 | 27 | #1,447 | 14.8 |
| 1946 | 16 | #1,882 | 9.9 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,325 | 19.3 |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,523 | 15.4 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,575 | 14.7 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,420 | 18.1 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,482 | 17.9 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,469 | 19.0 |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,358 | 22.6 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,438 | 20.7 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,754 | 15.9 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,502 | 20.2 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,225 | 29.8 |
| 1934 | 34 | #1,149 | 32.9 |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,329 | 26.2 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,323 | 26.8 |
| 1931 | 39 | #1,101 | 37.5 |
| 1930 | 53 | #927 | 48.3 |
| 1929 | 31 | #1,295 | 28.8 |
| 1928 | 37 | #1,186 | 33.4 |
| 1927 | 35 | #1,247 | 31.1 |
| 1926 | 37 | #1,191 | 33.3 |
| 1925 | 37 | #1,182 | 33.2 |
| 1924 | 57 | #934 | 50.3 |
| 1923 | 59 | #894 | 53.8 |
| 1922 | 56 | #939 | 51.5 |
| 1921 | 77 | #767 | 69.9 |
| 1920 | 78 | #743 | 73.3 |
| 1919 | 56 | #897 | 57.1 |
| 1918 | 32 | #1,255 | 31.6 |
| 1917 | 41 | #1,032 | 44.3 |
| 1916 | 39 | #1,042 | 43.8 |
| 1915 | 35 | #1,098 | 41.2 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,386 | 30.5 |
| 1913 | 26 | #994 | 50.7 |
| 1912 | 15 | #1,263 | 34.9 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,532 | 31.0 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,677 | 30.5 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,229 | 45.3 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,198 | 47.1 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,256 | 41.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Winton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Winton has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 108 years of records.
Girls and boys named Winton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Winton, and how old are they?
An estimated 659 Americans named Winton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 28 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 816 people named Winton (20 women and girls, 796 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 747 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
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 Winton born?
The states with the most babies named Winton are Georgia, Minnesota and Florida, with 83% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 159 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Minnesota | 46 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kansas | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Mississippi | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Winton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Winton is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 2.8 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 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 Winton 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,492 babies since 1880, Winton is the most given (78% 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 Winton
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 Winton and names like it
- Compare Winton and WyntonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWinton peaked in 1920.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Winton since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Winton.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Winton alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.