Winner
#6,425 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Winner has been given to 251 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #6,425 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 21 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% boys, 32% girls all-time.
Babies named Winner, 2025
1 in 237,000
Winner over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Winner over time
In 2025, Winner went to 30% girls and 70% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Winner?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 122,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,425
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Winner sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Winner. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Winners were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Winner was born before 2020 — so the typical Winner is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 52.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 170
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 52.9% of all recorded uses (90).
Is Winner 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
- +805
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,592
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 66.7%
- Peak was 2023 (21)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.6% average annual change
Spellings of Winner
Winner is not the most common spelling — Tanner is, with 42.5% against Winner's 0.07%.
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 Winner is used
Across 1910–2025, Winner was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 153,732 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Maine1 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. Winner has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Winner around the world
Where Winner 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.
- England & Wales2012–2019#4,702in 2019
- France2009–2025#5,346in 2025
- Canada2011–2022#2,959in 2022
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Winner by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Winner
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Winner
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.