How rare is the name Winifred?

12,409 people in the United States have the first name Winifred, about 1 in 24,340. It ranks #2,149 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

WINIFRED

#2,149

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
12,409
About
1 in 24,340
This common or more
78.7%
Who bears it

Of the 12,409 people named Winifred, 71.9% reported their origin as White, 19.6% as Black and 3.5% as Asian or Pacific Islander. 97.8% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Winifred peaked in 1918, when 1,640 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1918
Births that year
1,640
In 2025*
284 ▼83%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 46,200 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Winifred by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1890s, when it ranked #260. The largest share of babies named Winifred, 50.7%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#2671,314
1890s#2602,293
1900s#2732,717
1910s#26410,460
1920s#31012,400
1930s#4895,490
1940s#7003,855
1950s#1,0002,620
1960s#1,5581,324
1970s#3,039483
1980s#5,982219
1990s#8,321191
2000s#8,485255
2010s#3,3471,095
2020s#1,9221,484
Before 19018.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–2750.7%
Silent Generation 1928–4521.1%
Baby boom 1946–6410.6%
Generation X 1965–802.2%
Millennials 1981–960.7%
Generation Z 1997–120.9%
2013 and later5.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Winifred is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Winifred has been most common in Hawaii (3.6×), Massachusetts (2.5×), and New York (2×), and least common in Arizona (0.08×).

34,854 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Winifred

1 other first name also has 12,409 people.

#2,149 Braeden · 12,409

Either side of Winifred

#2,148 Kaley · 12,428#2,149 Braeden · 12,409#2,151 Cheyanne · 12,406#2,152 Mikhail · 12,398

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Winifred, most common first.

#4,551 Winfred · 4,050#7,958 Winnifred · 1,854#37,614 Winfried · 207#48,024 Winfrey · 134

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