Wynona
Wynona was given to 61 girls in 2025, #2,820 among girls’ names; 3,836 Americans have been recorded with it since 1899 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,710 Americans named Wynona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (45% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 25 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wynona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Wynona mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Wynona is “a female given name, variant of Winona.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Wynona?
#2,820 among girls’ names, 2025
Wynona rose from #9,454 in 2015 to #2,820 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 38.0 per million.
97 babies in 1930, the peak
Wynona peaked in 1930, when 97 girls were given it, #705 among girls’ names. The 61 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,820 | 38.0 |
| 2024 | 68 | #2,605 | 42.0 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,758 | 25.6 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,165 | 31.7 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,213 | 31.1 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,749 | 17.3 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,695 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,226 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,893 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,076 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,454 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 8 | #13,004 | 4.5 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,736 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,383 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,390 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,581 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,924 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,722 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,146 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,984 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,135 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,309 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,387 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,670 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,796 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,744 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,748 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 13 | #7,028 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 20 | #5,041 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,964 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,475 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,822 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,835 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,796 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,504 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,461 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #8,033 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 7 | #9,076 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,936 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,431 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,938 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,204 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,135 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,210 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,153 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,522 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,541 | 18.0 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,574 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,459 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,785 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,779 | 12.7 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,516 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,933 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,528 | 13.2 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,487 | 13.0 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,886 | 19.3 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,671 | 10.9 |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,883 | 18.3 |
| 1959 | 40 | #1,763 | 19.8 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,071 | 14.9 |
| 1957 | 34 | #1,902 | 16.6 |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,736 | 18.9 |
| 1955 | 40 | #1,638 | 20.5 |
| 1954 | 50 | #1,434 | 25.7 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,619 | 20.2 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,711 | 18.3 |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,502 | 22.2 |
| 1950 | 49 | #1,322 | 28.6 |
| 1949 | 39 | #1,487 | 22.8 |
| 1948 | 44 | #1,406 | 25.9 |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,459 | 23.7 |
| 1946 | 47 | #1,274 | 29.9 |
| 1945 | 44 | #1,211 | 33.7 |
| 1944 | 49 | #1,127 | 36.9 |
| 1943 | 57 | #1,069 | 40.9 |
| 1942 | 55 | #1,064 | 40.7 |
| 1941 | 56 | #985 | 46.4 |
| 1940 | 54 | #977 | 47.2 |
| 1939 | 66 | #867 | 60.2 |
| 1938 | 76 | #810 | 68.9 |
| 1937 | 64 | #869 | 60.1 |
| 1936 | 66 | #839 | 63.4 |
| 1935 | 88 | #720 | 83.9 |
| 1934 | 70 | #810 | 67.0 |
| 1933 | 65 | #833 | 64.5 |
| 1932 | 75 | #789 | 70.3 |
| 1931 | 89 | #716 | 83.6 |
| 1930 | 97 | #705 | 86.2 |
| 1929 | 59 | #940 | 52.8 |
| 1928 | 87 | #772 | 75.4 |
| 1927 | 93 | #746 | 78.0 |
| 1926 | 65 | #930 | 54.8 |
| 1925 | 71 | #884 | 58.3 |
| 1924 | 79 | #848 | 63.3 |
| 1923 | 82 | #810 | 68.0 |
| 1922 | 84 | #797 | 69.9 |
| 1921 | 68 | #904 | 55.1 |
| 1920 | 63 | #920 | 52.6 |
| 1919 | 53 | #998 | 46.9 |
| 1918 | 53 | #997 | 45.8 |
| 1917 | 49 | #1,012 | 45.3 |
| 1916 | 43 | #1,085 | 41.2 |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,138 | 37.6 |
| 1914 | 50 | #842 | 65.7 |
| 1913 | 33 | #944 | 52.8 |
| 1912 | 19 | #1,251 | 34.0 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,169 | 38.2 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,768 | 22.7 |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,287 | 34.6 |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,083 | 44.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,816 | 22.0 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,722 | 23.7 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,536 | 27.4 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,787 | 22.9 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,218 | 37.9 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,465 | 29.2 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,592 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wynona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wynona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wynona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wynona, and how old are they?
1,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 45% of the 3,836 Americans ever recorded as Wynona. The median Wynona alive today is 62 years old; half are between 25 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 1,667 people named Wynona (1,666 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,746 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 325 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 544 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 247 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 92 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 376 |
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 Wynona born?
The states with the most babies named Wynona are Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, with 83% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and Kansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 505 | not ranked | 7.3× |
| Texas | 377 | #3,767 | 1.6× |
| Kansas | 51 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 43 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 40 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arkansas | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Wynona is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Wynona is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 7.3 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 Wynona 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 20,379 babies since 1880, Wynona is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 630 babies (9.7%), the third most given that year.
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 Wynona
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 Wynona and names like it
- Compare Wynona and WinonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sWynona peaked in 1930.
- Oklahoma’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wynona since 1910.
- The top names of 1930The year the most babies were named Wynona.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Wynona alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.