Meaning not yet researched.
Winter: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 732 in 2025. Its best rank was #305 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #305 in 2022; #426 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Winter in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#426 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #305.
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Winter: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 732 girls in 2025. Peak: #305 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 1,053 (2022).
In 2025, 732 US girls were named Winter, making it the 426th most common girls’ name of the year, down 41 places from #385 in 2024. That is 87 fewer than the 819 girls named Winter in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #305, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,053. For comparison, it was #547 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Winter in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 5 babies. In all, 16,656 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 6.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,839 babies named Winter.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,572 US girls were named Winter; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 1,053. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,196 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Winter ranked highest in New Hampshire in 2025, at #203 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Wynter (10,977 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Wynnter, Winterr and Winnter 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Wynnter (91), Winterr (6), Winnter (5), Wynterr (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 Winter in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 7 | #203 | — |
| Missouri | 21 | #298 | #493 |
| West Virginia | 6 | #307 | — |
| South Carolina | 17 | #310 | #511 |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #325 | #441 |
| Florida | 57 | #325 | #645 |
| Virginia | 25 | #332 | #724 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #338 | — |
| Connecticut | 9 | #349 | #335 |
| Michigan | 26 | #350 | #584 |
| Oregon | 11 | #352 | #516 |
| Colorado | 18 | #353 | #529 |
| Alabama | 14 | #370 | #330 |
| Nevada | 8 | #373 | #647 |
| Kentucky | 12 | #382 | #716 |
| Utah | 12 | #384 | #552 |
| Georgia | 29 | #401 | #460 |
| Kansas | 9 | #402 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #412 | #480 |
| Washington | 18 | #413 | #311 |
| Ohio | 28 | #414 | #462 |
| New Jersey | 19 | #420 | #707 |
| Tennessee | 19 | #429 | #615 |
| Indiana | 16 | #443 | #617 |
| Maryland | 12 | #458 | — |
| Illinois | 23 | #469 | #762 |
| Texas | 69 | #476 | #791 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #481 | #281 |
| Iowa | 7 | #489 | — |
| New York | 35 | #495 | #522 |
| North Carolina | 22 | #509 | #407 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #553 | #392 |
| California | 57 | #574 | #628 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #596 | #1,014 |
| Arizona | 10 | #675 | #840 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #869 | #826 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 732 | #426 | 77 | #1,990 |
| 2024 | 819 | #385 | 61 | #2,343 |
| 2023 | 831 | #369 | 56 | #2,437 |
| 2022 | 1,053 | #305 | 65 | #2,240 |
| 2021 | 1,013 | #322 | 72 | #2,057 |
| 2020 | 1,009 | #315 | 51 | #2,545 |
| 2019 | 985 | #325 | 50 | #2,624 |
| 2018 | 799 | #388 | 36 | #3,236 |
| 2017 | 709 | #446 | 42 | #2,889 |
| 2016 | 622 | #503 | 46 | #2,686 |
| 2015 | 568 | #547 | 33 | #3,426 |
| 2014 | 561 | #553 | 35 | #3,230 |
| 2013 | 433 | #659 | 19 | #4,969 |
| 2012 | 358 | #772 | 34 | #3,294 |
| 2011 | 240 | #1,040 | 13 | #6,559 |
| 2010 | 220 | #1,121 | 12 | #7,064 |
| 2009 | 261 | #1,014 | 15 | #6,075 |
| 2008 | 238 | #1,095 | 15 | #6,051 |
| 2007 | 178 | #1,364 | 14 | #6,251 |
| 2006 | 206 | #1,182 | 12 | #6,890 |
| 2005 | 190 | #1,209 | 23 | #4,058 |
| 2004 | 205 | #1,117 | 12 | #6,503 |
| 2003 | 182 | #1,185 | 18 | #4,607 |
| 2002 | 205 | #1,050 | 24 | #3,666 |
| 2001 | 206 | #1,044 | 21 | #3,968 |
| 2000 | 173 | #1,167 | 15 | #5,035 |
| 1999 | 169 | #1,158 | 14 | #5,021 |
| 1998 | 189 | #1,045 | 15 | #4,638 |
| 1997 | 177 | #1,073 | 13 | #4,949 |
| 1996 | 173 | #1,077 | 12 | #5,179 |
| 1995 | 135 | #1,260 | 14 | #4,503 |
| 1994 | 122 | #1,367 | 11 | #5,438 |
| 1993 | 89 | #1,693 | 8 | #6,794 |
| 1992 | 79 | #1,829 | 6 | #8,402 |
| 1991 | 73 | #1,931 | 5 | #9,604 |
| 1990 | 76 | #1,877 | — | — |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 1988 | 60 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 1986 | 65 | #1,784 | 6 | #6,703 |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,081 | 5 | #7,555 |
| 1984 | 78 | #1,489 | 6 | #6,294 |
| 1983 | 92 | #1,318 | 8 | #4,896 |
| 1982 | 101 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1981 | 109 | #1,208 | 7 | #5,457 |
| 1980 | 140 | #1,029 | 7 | #5,512 |
| 1979 | 241 | #706 | 9 | #4,396 |
| 1978 | 137 | #1,000 | 7 | #5,047 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,836 | 5 | #6,838 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,405 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,155 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,249 | 8 | #4,180 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,069 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,281 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,976 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,687 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #6,032 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,796 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,642 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,557 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,609 | — | — |
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).