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Wynona

#2,820 in 2025Girls' name

Firstborn daughter, through Winona

Wynona has been given to 3,836 babies in the U.S. since 1899. In 2025 it ranked #2,820 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1930, with 97 recorded.

Babies named Wynona, 2025

1 in 54,300

Wynona over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wynona: meaning, origin, and history

Firstborn daughter, through Winona

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wynona means

Wynona belongs to the name family reached through Wynona → Winona. Its meaning is “firstborn daughter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Wynona is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Winona.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,836 girls were recorded with the name Wynona between 1899 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 97 in 1930; its best national rank was #705 in 1930.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,749 in 2020 to #2,820 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,454 in 2015 to #2,820 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Wynona?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 54,300
61 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 26,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,820
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,672 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wynona 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 37,672 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wynona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wynonas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wynona was born before 1939 — so the typical Wynona is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
19.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,402
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1930s — 19.7% of all recorded uses (756).

Is Wynona 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
−215
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,929
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,634
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.9%
Peak was 1930 (97)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#705
1930

Spellings of Wynona

Wynona is not the most common spelling — Nona is, with 38.7% against Wynona's 8.9%.

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 Wynona is used

Across 1910–2025, Wynona was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 78,611 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

023 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 4,348
  2. 2Kansas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 100,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in —
  8. 8California1 in —

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

Wynona around the world

Where Wynona 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
    2005–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    1997–2022
    #4,256
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1993–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Wynona

People whose public names include Wynona, 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.

Wynona in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Wynona. Linked forms have their own page here.

Winona

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Wynona by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,820
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,929
Best rank ever
#705
1930
Peak year
1930
97 that year
First recorded
1899
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,836
Count in 2025
61

Names similar to Wynona

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

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Names with a curve like Wynona

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

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Sibling names for Wynona

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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