Wynell
Wynell was last recorded in 1977, when 6 babies were given it; 1,033 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wynell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wynell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,880, in 1976; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
41 babies in 1932, the peak
Wynell peaked in 1932, when 41 girls were given it, #1,129 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | #10,880 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,782 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,372 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,976 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,555 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,577 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,852 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,539 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,769 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,190 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 7 | #5,396 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,693 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,906 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,064 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,184 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,360 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,798 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,281 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,905 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,511 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,697 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,446 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,480 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,147 | 13.0 |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,914 | 15.8 |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,789 | 17.2 |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,802 | 17.0 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,807 | 17.4 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,744 | 19.2 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,637 | 21.0 |
| 1938 | 25 | #1,546 | 22.7 |
| 1937 | 34 | #1,254 | 32.0 |
| 1936 | 35 | #1,229 | 33.6 |
| 1935 | 37 | #1,181 | 35.3 |
| 1934 | 35 | #1,220 | 33.5 |
| 1933 | 33 | #1,261 | 32.7 |
| 1932 | 41 | #1,129 | 38.4 |
| 1931 | 40 | #1,147 | 37.6 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,370 | 28.4 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,596 | 22.4 |
| 1928 | 39 | #1,237 | 33.8 |
| 1927 | 33 | #1,421 | 27.7 |
| 1926 | 33 | #1,412 | 27.8 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,606 | 23.0 |
| 1924 | 19 | #2,133 | 15.2 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,839 | 19.1 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,776 | 10.8 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,281 | 13.8 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,585 | 11.7 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,635 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,814 | 10.4 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,550 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,251 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,427 | 8.1 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,697 | 8.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wynell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wynell has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Wynell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wynell, and how old are they?
An estimated 346 Americans named Wynell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 70 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 505 people named Wynell (464 women and girls, 41 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 477 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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 Wynell born?
The states with the most babies named Wynell are Alabama, Texas and Georgia, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 176 | not ranked | 6.1× |
| Texas | 157 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Georgia | 153 | not ranked | 4.8× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Wynell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Wynell is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1913 it was given 6.1 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 Wynell 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 1,105 babies since 1880, Wynell is the most given (93% 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 Wynell
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 Wynell and names like it
- Compare Wynell and WinnellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sWynell peaked in 1932.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wynell since 1910.
- The top names of 1932The year the most babies were named Wynell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Wynell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.