Meaning not yet researched.
Winnifred: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 70 in 2025. Its best rank was #419 in 1888.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #419 in 1888; #2,540 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Winnifred in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,540 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1888, at #419.
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Winnifred: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 70 girls in 2025. Peak: #419 in 1888 · most girls in one year: 166 (1918).
In 2025, 70 US girls were named Winnifred, making it the 2,540th most common girls’ name of the year, up 233 places from #2,773 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 62 girls named Winnifred in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #419, reached in 1888. The most girls given the name in a single year was 166, in 1918. For comparison, it was #6,023 in 2015 and #1,575 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Winnifred in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 9 babies. In all, 5,127 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,275 babies named Winnifred.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 491 US girls were named Winnifred; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,961 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Winnifred ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #3,765 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Winifred (46,200 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Fred, Freddie, Freddy, Winnie and Winny.
Meaning not yet researched.
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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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,765 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 2024 | 62 | #2,773 | — | — |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,788 | — | — |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,637 | — | — |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,248 | — | — |
| 2020 | 52 | #3,090 | — | — |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,915 | — | — |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,764 | — | — |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,379 | — | — |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,982 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #6,023 | — | — |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,945 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,915 | — | — |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,290 | — | — |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,871 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,165 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,395 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,396 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,368 | — | — |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,463 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,485 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,198 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,826 | — | — |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,717 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,421 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,267 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,537 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #7,064 | — | — |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,194 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,237 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,618 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,554 | — | — |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,546 | — | — |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,240 | — | — |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,268 | — | — |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,297 | — | — |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,917 | — | — |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,676 | — | — |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,751 | — | — |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,275 | — | — |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,824 | — | — |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,236 | — | — |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,430 | — | — |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 1951 | 31 | #1,771 | — | — |
| 1950 | 36 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1949 | 36 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1947 | 53 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1941 | 45 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1940 | 43 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1939 | 57 | #938 | — | — |
| 1938 | 39 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 1937 | 51 | #991 | — | — |
| 1936 | 60 | #887 | — | — |
| 1935 | 41 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1934 | 57 | #916 | — | — |
| 1933 | 60 | #877 | — | — |
| 1932 | 67 | #855 | — | — |
| 1931 | 62 | #875 | — | — |
| 1930 | 66 | #893 | — | — |
| 1929 | 86 | #759 | — | — |
| 1928 | 75 | #839 | — | — |
| 1927 | 105 | #708 | — | — |
| 1926 | 125 | #646 | — | — |
| 1925 | 137 | #626 | — | — |
| 1924 | 131 | #655 | — | — |
| 1923 | 145 | #605 | — | — |
| 1922 | 159 | #572 | — | — |
| 1921 | 152 | #588 | — | — |
| 1920 | 160 | #568 | — | — |
| 1919 | 135 | #607 | — | — |
| 1918 | 166 | #547 | — | — |
| 1917 | 147 | #558 | — | — |
| 1916 | 161 | #516 | — | — |
| 1915 | 139 | #540 | — | — |
| 1914 | 94 | #589 | — | — |
| 1913 | 87 | #550 | — | — |
| 1912 | 65 | #614 | — | — |
| 1911 | 66 | #516 | — | — |
| 1910 | 47 | #619 | — | — |
| 1909 | 39 | #636 | — | — |
| 1908 | 41 | #592 | — | — |
| 1907 | 45 | #544 | — | — |
| 1906 | 35 | #610 | — | — |
| 1905 | 25 | #732 | — | — |
| 1904 | 34 | #585 | — | — |
| 1903 | 33 | #573 | — | — |
| 1902 | 28 | #641 | — | — |
| 1901 | 32 | #546 | — | — |
| 1900 | 40 | #542 | — | — |
| 1899 | 30 | #564 | — | — |
| 1898 | 32 | #580 | — | — |
| 1897 | 24 | #643 | — | — |
| 1896 | 31 | #551 | — | — |
| 1895 | 32 | #529 | — | — |
| 1894 | 31 | #526 | — | — |
| 1893 | 27 | #546 | — | — |
| 1892 | 26 | #553 | — | — |
| 1891 | 21 | #588 | — | — |
| 1890 | 24 | #547 | — | — |
| 1889 | 21 | #566 | — | — |
| 1888 | 36 | #419 | — | — |
| 1887 | 21 | #498 | — | — |
| 1886 | 18 | #539 | — | — |
| 1885 | 22 | #458 | — | — |
| 1884 | 11 | #682 | — | — |
| 1883 | 16 | #497 | — | — |
| 1882 | 18 | #445 | — | — |
| 1881 | 8 | #677 | — | — |
| 1880 | 9 | #627 | — | — |
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).