Meaning not yet researched.
Windy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #553 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #553 in 1975; #14,835 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Windy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#14,835 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #553.
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Windy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #553 in 1975 · most girls in one year: 310 (1975).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Windy, making it the 14,835th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,746 places from #12,089 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 8 girls named Windy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #553, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 310. For comparison, it was #14,410 in 2015 and #2,780 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Windy in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 9 babies. In all, 4,983 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2,480 babies named Windy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 57 US girls were named Windy; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 9. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Wendy (263,276 babies since 1880) and Wendi (14,522 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Windee are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Windee (26).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Windy in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,835 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,089 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,188 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,140 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,986 | — | — |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,389 | — | — |
| 2017 | 7 | #14,034 | — | — |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,126 | — | — |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,410 | — | — |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,886 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,914 | — | — |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,161 | — | — |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,757 | — | — |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,224 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,190 | — | — |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,329 | — | — |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,503 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,698 | — | — |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,310 | — | — |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,861 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,481 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,449 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,325 | — | — |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,565 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,698 | — | — |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,793 | — | — |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,408 | — | — |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,877 | — | — |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,672 | — | — |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,241 | — | — |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,678 | — | — |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,378 | — | — |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,815 | — | — |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,400 | — | — |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,476 | — | — |
| 1988 | 45 | #2,446 | — | — |
| 1987 | 56 | #2,022 | — | — |
| 1986 | 48 | #2,193 | — | — |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 1984 | 78 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 1983 | 79 | #1,474 | 6 | #6,213 |
| 1982 | 87 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1981 | 146 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1980 | 153 | #976 | — | — |
| 1979 | 227 | #731 | — | — |
| 1978 | 220 | #721 | — | — |
| 1977 | 215 | #720 | — | — |
| 1976 | 251 | #624 | — | — |
| 1975 | 310 | #553 | — | — |
| 1974 | 270 | #587 | 6 | #5,211 |
| 1973 | 242 | #628 | — | — |
| 1972 | 270 | #595 | — | — |
| 1971 | 249 | #655 | — | — |
| 1970 | 220 | #707 | — | — |
| 1969 | 178 | #756 | — | — |
| 1968 | 159 | #800 | — | — |
| 1967 | 161 | #786 | — | — |
| 1966 | 83 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1965 | 69 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1964 | 65 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 1963 | 59 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 1962 | 61 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 1960 | 62 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 1959 | 52 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 1958 | 54 | #1,468 | — | — |
| 1957 | 33 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,837 | — | — |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,199 | — | — |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,102 | — | — |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,780 | — | — |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,662 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,879 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).