Winnona is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Winona, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Winnona: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,913 in 1923.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,913 in 1923; #11,869 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Winnona in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,869 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1923, at #2,913.
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Winnona: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,913 in 1923 · most girls in one year: 12 (1923).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Winnona, making it the 11,869th most common girls’ name of the year, down 801 places from #11,068 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 9 girls named Winnona in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,913, reached in 1923. That year also had the most girls given the name: 12. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Winnona in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 165 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 40 babies named Winnona.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 27 US girls were named Winnona; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 9. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Winona (12,953 babies since 1880) and Wynona (3,836 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Winnona 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 | 8 | #11,869 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,068 | — | — |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,620 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,532 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,268 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,309 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #5,025 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #6,026 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #6,096 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,228 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,567 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,360 | — | — |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,117 | — | — |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,142 | — | — |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,443 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,917 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,195 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,960 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,429 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,792 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,603 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,757 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,424 | — | — |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,913 | — | — |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,710 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,151 | — | — |
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).