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Winford

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Winford has been given to 4,503 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1928, with 116 recorded.

Babies named Winford, 2009

1 in 637,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Winford: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Winford means

Winford is a given name.

The naming story behind Winford

Wikidata records Winford as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q69685627, 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, 4,503 boys were recorded with the name Winford between 1889 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 116 in 1928; its best national rank was #576 in 1928.

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 Winford?

Winford had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 637,000
6 of 3,820,315 births
Among boys only
1 in 331,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
441,341 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Winford 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 2009 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 441,341 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Winford. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Winfords were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Winford was born before 1937 — so the typical Winford is around 88 today.

Median birth year
1937
About 88 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
22.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,320
People you could plausibly meet
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1920s — 22.7% of all recorded uses (1,024).

Is Winford 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1928 (116)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#576
1928

Spellings of Winford

Winford is not the most common spelling — Sanford is, with 27.9% against Winford's 8.4%.

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 Winford is used

Across 1910–2025, Winford was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 36,763 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 7,692
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 10,000
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 12,500
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 14,286
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 14,286
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 16,667
  7. 7Georgia1 in 25,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 25,000

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

Notable people named Winford

People whose public names include Winford, 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.

Winford by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#576
1928
Peak year
1928
116 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
4,503
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Winford

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

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Names with a curve like Winford

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

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Sibling names for Winford

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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