How rare is the name Winona?

4,829 people in the United States have the first name Winona, about 1 in 62,545. It ranks #4,020 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

WINONA

#4,020

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,829
About
1 in 62,545
This common or more
83.4%
Who bears it

Of the 4,829 people named Winona, 64.7% reported their origin as White, 11.1% as Black and 7.5% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Winona peaked in 2025, when 466 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2025
Births that year
466
In 2025*
466
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 12,953 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.

Winona by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1920s, when it ranked #811. The largest share of babies named Winona, 30.1%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1,206108
1890s#1,056206
1900s#902376
1910s#8501,517
1920s#8112,430
1930s#8671,888
1940s#1,3381,076
1950s#1,6271,057
1960s#2,116726
1970s#3,048481
1980s#5,564245
1990s#5,537340
2000s#10,280195
2010s#5,286550
2020s#1,7121,758
Before 19012.6%
Greatest Generation 1901–2730.1%
Silent Generation 1928–4523%
Baby boom 1946–6414.5%
Generation X 1965–806.4%
Millennials 1981–963.7%
Generation Z 1997–122.6%
2013 and later17.2%

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 Winona is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Winona has been most common in Hawaii (15×), Maine (4.7×), and Oklahoma (3.4×), and least common in South Carolina (0.34×).

7,239 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.

Either side of Winona

#4,017 Glory · 4,831#4,017 Jerrell · 4,831#4,021 Jaren · 4,827#4,022 Alexzander · 4,826

Spelled almost the same

One first name in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Winona, most common first.

#46,195 Winnona · 145

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