Windie

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Windie has been given to 135 babies in the U.S. since 1965. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1969, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Windie, 1982

1 in 585,000

Windie over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Windie: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Windie means

Windie is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Windie is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 135 girls were recorded with the name Windie between 1965 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1969; its best national rank was #3,953 in 1969.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Windie?

Windie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1982: 1 in 585,000; 6 of 3,507,638 births
Among girls only: 1 in 282,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1982: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 405,219 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Windie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1982 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 405,219 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Windie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Windies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Windie was born before 1972 — so the typical Windie is around 53 today.

Median birth year: 1972; About 53 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 57.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 135; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 57.8% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Windie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1969 (14)
Years since peak: 56; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,953; 1969

Spellings of Windie

Windie is not the most common spelling — Minnie is, with 34.8% against Windie's 0.03%.

Minnie34.8%159,280
Willie32.0%146,197
Winnie5.9%27,109
India5.2%23,990
Birdie3.2%14,708
Wendi3.2%14,522
Linnie1.7%7,997
Cindi1.7%7,696

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Windie is used

Across 1910–2025, Windie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Windie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Windie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,953; 1969
Peak year: 1969; 14 that year
First recorded: 1965
Last recorded: 1982
All-time count: 135
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Windie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Winola Winner Winni Winnona Winslie Winslet Jordie Winsley Gradie Windsor Winley Winslee Winston Bodie Winna Winda Winta Lindie Wincie Rhodie Ellodie Kaydie Brodie Winnell

Sibling names for Windie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shannan Marnie Charla Richelle Nichelle Aretha Brigette Nicolle

For a brother

Jacques Judd Douglass Alfonzo Kraig Kelley Edwardo Shon

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