Meaning not yet researched.
Winston: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 830 in 2025. Its best rank was #234 in 1941.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #234 in 1941; #382 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Winston in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#382 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1941, at #234.
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Winston: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 830 boys in 2025. Peak: #234 in 1941 · most boys in one year: 860 (2019).
In 2025, 830 US boys were named Winston, making it the 382nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 23 places from #405 in 2024. That is 31 more than the 799 boys named Winston in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #234, reached in 1941. The most boys given the name in a single year was 860, in 2019. For comparison, it was #523 in 2015 and #399 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Winston in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 32,956 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,508 babies named Winston.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,757 US boys were named Winston; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 860. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,058 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Winston ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #137 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Wynston, Winsten and Wenston 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Wynston (716), Winsten (46), Wenston (11), Winstyn (11), Wynnston (10), Winstin (8), Wynsten (6), Wynstin (5).
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 Winston in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 42 | #137 | #457 |
| North Dakota | 7 | #190 | #286 |
| Arkansas | 18 | #206 | #542 |
| Montana | 6 | #226 | — |
| New Hampshire | 6 | #228 | — |
| Iowa | 18 | #231 | #414 |
| Wisconsin | 25 | #243 | #452 |
| Tennessee | 37 | #243 | #496 |
| West Virginia | 8 | #251 | — |
| South Dakota | 6 | #255 | — |
| Mississippi | 12 | #280 | — |
| Minnesota | 22 | #286 | #289 |
| Alabama | 20 | #288 | #517 |
| Washington | 26 | #300 | #440 |
| Missouri | 23 | #301 | #463 |
| Utah | 17 | #301 | #336 |
| Louisiana | 17 | #313 | #411 |
| Kansas | 12 | #323 | #579 |
| South Carolina | 16 | #347 | — |
| Indiana | 21 | #369 | #453 |
| Michigan | 24 | #373 | #595 |
| Idaho | 7 | #374 | #382 |
| Oregon | 11 | #374 | #456 |
| Connecticut | 8 | #380 | #526 |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #393 | #570 |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #395 | #652 |
| Ohio | 27 | #410 | #561 |
| Colorado | 15 | #419 | #476 |
| North Carolina | 25 | #446 | #390 |
| California | 71 | #450 | #459 |
| Georgia | 24 | #462 | #659 |
| Illinois | 23 | #469 | #775 |
| Florida | 34 | #529 | #654 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #553 | #402 |
| New York | 29 | #559 | #606 |
| Texas | 56 | #571 | #576 |
| Maryland | 8 | #627 | #577 |
| Arizona | 11 | #630 | #522 |
| Virginia | 11 | #665 | #729 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #757 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 830 | #382 |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,069 | 799 | #405 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,116 | 798 | #398 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,200 | 761 | #420 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,951 | 762 | #409 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,923 | 726 | #408 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,449 | 860 | #372 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,403 | 790 | #404 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,664 | 782 | #405 |
| 2016 | — | — | 649 | #472 |
| 2015 | — | — | 551 | #523 |
| 2014 | — | — | 518 | #538 |
| 2013 | — | — | 394 | #625 |
| 2012 | — | — | 399 | #614 |
| 2011 | — | — | 305 | #745 |
| 2010 | — | — | 238 | #882 |
| 2009 | — | — | 270 | #821 |
| 2008 | — | — | 270 | #815 |
| 2007 | — | — | 239 | #870 |
| 2006 | — | — | 225 | #879 |
| 2005 | — | — | 244 | #794 |
| 2004 | — | — | 215 | #830 |
| 2003 | — | — | 196 | #876 |
| 2002 | — | — | 218 | #794 |
| 2001 | — | — | 213 | #795 |
| 2000 | — | — | 249 | #704 |
| 1999 | — | — | 264 | #658 |
| 1998 | — | — | 210 | #763 |
| 1997 | — | — | 206 | #738 |
| 1996 | — | — | 247 | #669 |
| 1995 | — | — | 243 | #681 |
| 1994 | — | — | 244 | #664 |
| 1993 | — | — | 255 | #647 |
| 1992 | — | — | 279 | #620 |
| 1991 | — | — | 290 | #598 |
| 1990 | — | — | 282 | #596 |
| 1989 | — | — | 253 | #626 |
| 1988 | — | — | 226 | #634 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,288 | 223 | #608 |
| 1986 | — | — | 192 | #645 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,303 | 223 | #590 |
| 1984 | — | — | 185 | #630 |
| 1983 | — | — | 152 | #696 |
| 1982 | — | — | 178 | #652 |
| 1981 | — | — | 181 | #634 |
| 1980 | — | — | 177 | #654 |
| 1979 | — | — | 153 | #692 |
| 1978 | — | — | 172 | #641 |
| 1977 | — | — | 181 | #626 |
| 1976 | — | — | 149 | #678 |
| 1975 | — | — | 161 | #644 |
| 1974 | — | — | 144 | #683 |
| 1973 | — | — | 159 | #628 |
| 1972 | — | — | 162 | #618 |
| 1971 | — | — | 207 | #566 |
| 1970 | — | — | 180 | #608 |
| 1969 | — | — | 190 | #569 |
| 1968 | — | — | 160 | #602 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,792 | 188 | #545 |
| 1966 | — | — | 208 | #529 |
| 1965 | — | — | 233 | #500 |
| 1964 | — | — | 198 | #563 |
| 1963 | — | — | 207 | #552 |
| 1962 | — | — | 177 | #588 |
| 1961 | — | — | 206 | #550 |
| 1960 | — | — | 189 | #569 |
| 1959 | — | — | 196 | #553 |
| 1958 | — | — | 194 | #555 |
| 1957 | — | — | 256 | #490 |
| 1956 | — | — | 270 | #460 |
| 1955 | — | — | 284 | #436 |
| 1954 | — | — | 270 | #443 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,663 | 262 | #441 |
| 1952 | — | — | 262 | #433 |
| 1951 | — | — | 250 | #429 |
| 1950 | — | — | 290 | #399 |
| 1949 | — | — | 267 | #418 |
| 1948 | — | — | 288 | #401 |
| 1947 | — | — | 275 | #412 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,410 | 271 | #395 |
| 1945 | — | — | 271 | #361 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,235 | 370 | #314 |
| 1943 | — | — | 547 | #259 |
| 1942 | — | — | 523 | #254 |
| 1941 | — | — | 542 | #234 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,856 | 329 | #310 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,239 | 174 | #432 |
| 1938 | — | — | 174 | #437 |
| 1937 | — | — | 194 | #405 |
| 1936 | — | — | 174 | #425 |
| 1935 | — | — | 175 | #423 |
| 1934 | — | — | 198 | #392 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,849 | 183 | #399 |
| 1932 | — | — | 208 | #390 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,963 | 177 | #427 |
| 1930 | — | — | 200 | #417 |
| 1929 | — | — | 201 | #416 |
| 1928 | — | — | 206 | #419 |
| 1927 | — | — | 237 | #384 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,604 | 230 | #391 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,758 | 224 | #401 |
| 1924 | — | — | 262 | #373 |
| 1923 | — | — | 213 | #411 |
| 1922 | — | — | 257 | #376 |
| 1921 | — | — | 289 | #354 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,748 | 211 | #405 |
| 1919 | — | — | 208 | #405 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,797 | 222 | #401 |
| 1917 | — | — | 207 | #390 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,152 | 194 | #398 |
| 1915 | — | — | 197 | #381 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,188 | 158 | #378 |
| 1913 | — | — | 92 | #450 |
| 1912 | — | — | 95 | #396 |
| 1911 | — | — | 35 | #505 |
| 1910 | — | — | 20 | #676 |
| 1909 | — | — | 35 | #427 |
| 1908 | — | — | 36 | #398 |
| 1907 | — | — | 21 | #539 |
| 1906 | — | — | 20 | #522 |
| 1905 | — | — | 20 | #524 |
| 1904 | — | — | 14 | #646 |
| 1903 | — | — | 13 | #655 |
| 1902 | — | — | 11 | #741 |
| 1901 | — | — | 12 | #635 |
| 1900 | — | — | 13 | #741 |
| 1899 | — | — | 9 | #785 |
| 1898 | — | — | 17 | #522 |
| 1897 | — | — | 11 | #679 |
| 1896 | — | — | 12 | #673 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #975 |
| 1894 | — | — | 7 | #951 |
| 1893 | — | — | 8 | #834 |
| 1892 | — | — | 8 | #860 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,125 |
| 1890 | — | — | 6 | #992 |
| 1889 | — | — | 7 | #877 |
| 1888 | — | — | 5 | #1,176 |
| 1887 | — | — | 6 | #916 |
| 1886 | — | — | 8 | #756 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,123 |
| 1883 | — | — | 6 | #887 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #1,052 |
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).