Winifred
Winifred is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 244 births. Its best rank was 141st, in 1917.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2440.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 19181,593 births
- Best rank
- #141in 1917
- Since 1880
- 45,915people given the name
The story in the numbers
44,809 girls have been named Winifred in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 1,593 births — 0.14% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 87 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,106 boys have also been given it, 2.4% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Winifred | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,309 | |
| 1890s | 2,293 | |
| 1900s | 2,689 | |
| 1910s | 10,255 | |
| 1920s | 12,083 | |
| 1930s | 5,289 | |
| 1940s | 3,724 | |
| 1950s | 2,501 | |
| 1960s | 1,252 | |
| 1970s | 461 | |
| 1980s | 213 | |
| 1990s | 191 | |
| 2000s | 255 | |
| 2010s | 1,095 | |
| 2020s | 1,199 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Winifred was the 145th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Winifred
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Winnifredpeak 1918
- Josephinepeak 1918
- Louisepeak 1921
- Eudorapeak 1923
- Ethelynpeak 1920
- Leotapeak 1918
- Aldapeak 1918
- Elnorapeak 1924
Other spellings in the data
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.