Winnona
#11,865 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Winnona has been given to 165 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #11,865 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1923, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Winnona, 2025
1 in 414,000
Winnona 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Winnona?
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 girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,865
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Winnona 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Winnona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Winnonas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Winnona was born before 1939 — so the typical Winnona is around 86 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 24.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 46
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (40).
Is Winnona 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
- −802
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- 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 1923 (12)
- Years since peak
- 102
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.3% average annual change
Spellings of Winnona
Winnona is not the most common spelling — Winona is, with 71.5% against Winnona's 0.91%.
Winnona around the world
Where Winnona 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.
- South Australia1998–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Winnona by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Winnona
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Winnona
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.