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Winfred

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Winfred is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 386th, in 1917.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
1922244 births
Best rank
#386in 1917
Since 1880
10,455people given the name
Babies named Winfred, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

10,104 boys have been named Winfred in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 244 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 244 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 83 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 351 girls have also been given it, 3.4% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Winfred
1880s100
1890s103
1900s137
1910s1,303
1920s2,147
1930s1,500
1940s1,342
1950s1,533
1960s934
1970s400
1980s303
1990s163
2000s70
2010s54
2020s15

In 1922, its biggest year

Winfred was the 387th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.

Names that rose and fell with Winfred

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.