Winthrop
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Winthrop has been given to 1,178 babies in the U.S. since 1883. 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 1915, with 48 recorded.
Babies named Winthrop, 2023
1 in 552,000
Winthrop 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Winthrop?
Winthrop had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 552,000
- 6 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,940 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Winthrop sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Winthrop. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Winthrops were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Winthrop was born before 1937 — so the typical Winthrop is around 88 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 18.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 2.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 385
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 18.3% of all recorded uses (216).
Is Winthrop 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 1915 (48)
- Years since peak
- 110
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.7% average annual change
Where Winthrop is used
Across 1910–2025, Winthrop was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 73,827 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Massachusetts1 in 20,000
- 2Connecticut1 in 100,000
- 3New York1 in —
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. Winthrop has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Winthrop by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Winthrop
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Winthrop
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.