Winnifred

#2,540 in 2025Girls' name

Joy + peace, through Winifred

Winnifred has been given to 5,127 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,540 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 166 recorded.

Babies named Winnifred, 2025

1 in 47,400

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Winnifred: meaning, origin, and history

Joy + peace, through Winifred

Welsh

What Winnifred means

Winnifred belongs to the name family reached through Winnifred → Winifred → Winfriþ. Its meaning is “joy + peace”.

Origin, language, and formation

Winnifred is used in English. Its origins include Welsh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Winifred and Winfriþ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,127 girls were recorded with the name Winnifred between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 166 in 1918; its best national rank was #419 in 1888.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,090 in 2020 to #2,540 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,021 in 2015 to #2,540 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.

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How common is Winnifred?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 47,400; 70 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 23,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #2,540; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 32,828 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Winnifred 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 32,828 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Winnifred. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Winnifreds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Winnifred was born before 1924 — so the typical Winnifred is around 101 today.

Median birth year: 1924; About 101 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 24.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 11.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 1,014; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 24.9% of all recorded uses (1,275).

Is Winnifred 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: +233; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +550; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +3,481; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 3.18×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 42.2%; Peak was 1918 (166)
Years since peak: 107; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #419; 1888

Spellings of Winnifred

Winnifred is not the most common spelling — Winifred is, with 89.8% against Winnifred's 10.2%.

Winifred89.8%45,094
Winnifred10.2%5,127

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 Winnifred is used

Across 1910–2025, Winnifred was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 73,661 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

020 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Maine1 in 5,000
2Minnesota1 in 14,286
3North Dakota1 in 16,667
4Massachusetts1 in 20,000
5Michigan1 in 25,000
6Washington1 in 25,000
7Iowa1 in 33,333
8Montana1 in 33,333

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

Winnifred around the world

Where Winnifred 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 & Wales
1999–2025
#1,512
in 2025
Ireland
1992–1992
#523
in 1992
Canada
2011–2024
#1,469
in 2024
South Australia
1952–1995
#712
in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Winnifred by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #2,540
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 550
Best rank ever: #419; 1888
Peak year: 1918; 166 that year
First recorded: 1880
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 5,127
Count in 2025: 70

Names similar to Winnifred

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

Winifred Winfred Winefred Winnefred Winniefred Windy Winona Winslow Winter Windsor Winafred Winnie Winsley Winry Winslet Hildred Winnona Winslie Winola Alfred Winston Winterrose Kindred Winner

Names with a curve like Winnifred

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

Theo Elenora Rubie Alda Ethelyn Ray Filomena Elvie Marvel Elna Johnie Verona

Sibling names for Winnifred

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

Maybelle Adella Era Iona Golda Lavinia Lavina Novella

For a brother

Alphonse Mahlon Hardy Casimir Omer Orrin Abe Clement

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