Winfred
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
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
By decade
| Decade | boys named Winfred | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 100 | |
| 1890s | 103 | |
| 1900s | 137 | |
| 1910s | 1,303 | |
| 1920s | 2,147 | |
| 1930s | 1,500 | |
| 1940s | 1,342 | |
| 1950s | 1,533 | |
| 1960s | 934 | |
| 1970s | 400 | |
| 1980s | 303 | |
| 1990s | 163 | |
| 2000s | 70 | |
| 2010s | 54 | |
| 2020s | 15 |
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.
- Bernardpeak 1924
- Delbertpeak 1932
- Vernonpeak 1920
- Leonardpeak 1921
- Wilbertpeak 1922
- Elgiepeak 1918
- Wiltonpeak 1924
- Mervinpeak 1920
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.