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Winfield

#9,655 in 2025Boys' name

Meadow, pasture + field

Winfield has been given to 5,214 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #9,655 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 125 recorded.

Babies named Winfield, 2025

1 in 414,000

Winfield over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Winfield: meaning, origin, and history

Meadow, pasture + field

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Winfield means

Winfield means “meadow, pasture + field”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,214 boys were recorded with the name Winfield between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 125 in 1916; its best national rank was #122 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,688 in 2020 to #9,655 in 2025.

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 Winfield?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,655
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Winfield sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Winfield. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Winfields were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Winfield was born before 1928 — so the typical Winfield is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,347
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.2% of all recorded uses (948).

Is Winfield 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
+169
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−967
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
6.4%
Peak was 1916 (125)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#122
1880

Spellings of Winfield

Winfield is not the most common spelling — Winfred is, with 66.0% against Winfield's 34.0%.

  • Winfred66.0%10,104
  • Winfield34.0%5,214

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 Winfield is used

Across 1910–2025, Winfield was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 89,066 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 10,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 25,000
  4. 4Maryland1 in 33,333
  5. 5New York1 in 50,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Winfield has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Winfield

People whose public names include Winfield, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Winfield by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,655
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 967
Best rank ever
#122
1880
Peak year
1916
125 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,214
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Winfield

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

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Names with a curve like Winfield

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

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Sibling names for Winfield

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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