first name
WINSTON
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 24,635 people named Winston, 40.7% reported their origin as White, 35.3% as Black and 11.5% as Asian or Pacific Islander. 99.3% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Winston peaked in 2019, when 866 babies got the name.
At least 32,956 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.
Winston by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1940s, when it ranked #721. The largest share of babies named Winston, 28.2%, were born in 2013 or later.
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 Winston is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Winston has been most common in Alabama (3.1×), Vermont (2.3×), and Virginia (2.1×), and least common in Connecticut (0.2×).
27,128 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.
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Also a last name
As a last name, Winston ranks #1,697 of 156,621, with 20,691 people. See Winston as a last name
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