Wynston
Wynston was given to 39 boys in 2025, #3,122 among boys’ names; 716 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wynston by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wynston?
#3,122 among boys’ names, 2025
Wynston rose from #4,702 in 2015 to #3,122 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.0 to 22.8 per million.
56 babies in 2023, the peak
Wynston peaked in 2023, when 56 boys were given it, #2,437 among boys’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,122 | 22.8 |
| 2024 | 47 | #2,788 | 27.3 |
| 2023 | 56 | #2,437 | 32.7 |
| 2022 | 48 | #2,748 | 27.5 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,235 | 21.1 |
| 2020 | 29 | #3,726 | 16.8 |
| 2019 | 44 | #2,846 | 24.5 |
| 2018 | 41 | #2,939 | 22.6 |
| 2017 | 33 | #3,434 | 17.8 |
| 2016 | 33 | #3,438 | 17.4 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,702 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,381 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,157 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,522 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,212 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 15 | #6,017 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 15 | #6,072 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #6,048 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,594 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,851 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #9,070 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #8,119 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,795 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,353 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,201 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,564 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,639 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,523 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,945 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,517 | 5.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #10,114 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,386 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,606 | 2.5 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,190 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wynston a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wynston has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 34 years of records.
Girls and boys named Wynston: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wynston, and how old are they?
An estimated 708 Americans named Wynston and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 479 people named Wynston (22 women and girls, 457 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 458 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% 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).
How common is the spelling Wynston?
Wynston is a less common spelling of Winston: SSA has recorded 716 Wynston and 32,956 Winston since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 33,672 babies since 1880, Wynston is the second most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 869 babies (4.5%), again the second 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 Wynston
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 Wynston and names like it
- Compare Wynston and WinstonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Wynston.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Wynston alive today were born 2013-2025.
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