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Windy

#14,831 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Windy has been given to 4,983 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #14,831 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 310 recorded.

Babies named Windy, 2025

1 in 553,000

Windy over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Windy: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Windy means

Windy is a given name.

The naming story behind Windy

Wikidata records Windy as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q113645764, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,971 girls were recorded with the name Windy between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 310 in 1975; its best national rank was #553 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,981 in 2020 to #14,831 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #14,405 in 2015 to #14,831 in 2025.

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Windy between 1974 and 1983. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1974; its best national rank was #5,209 in 1974.

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.

How common is Windy?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,831
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Windy 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Windy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Windys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Windy was born before 1974 — so the typical Windy is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
49.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,955
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 49.8% of all recorded uses (2,474).

Is Windy 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
−2,747
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+150
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−426
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.9%
Peak was 1975 (310)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#553
1975

Spellings of Windy

Windy is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 57.1% against Windy's 0.20%.

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 Windy is used

Across 1910–2025, Windy was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 43,258 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 12,500
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 16,667
  3. 3Alabama1 in 20,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 20,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 20,000
  6. 6California1 in 25,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 25,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 25,000

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. Windy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Windy around the world

Where Windy ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1976–2019
    #6,828
    in 2019

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Windy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,831
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 150
Best rank ever
#553
1975
Peak year
1975
310 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,971
Count in 2025
6

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,209
1974
Peak year
1974
6 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
1983
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Windy

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

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Names with a curve like Windy

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Windy, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Windy

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

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