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Wynter

#457 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Winter

Wynter has been given to 10,977 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #457 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 934 recorded.

Babies named Wynter, 2025

1 in 4,900

Wynter over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02505007501K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wynter: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Winter

English

What Wynter means

Wynter is a variant of Winter.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Wynter → Winter. The family’s meaning is “Winter season”, recorded in the naming reference for Winter.

Origin, language, and formation

Wynter is used in English. Its origins include English.

Wynter is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Winter.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,728 girls were recorded with the name Wynter between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 934 in 2021; its best national rank was #343 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #376 in 2020 to #457 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #781 in 2015 to #457 in 2025.

In the United States, 249 boys were recorded with the name Wynter between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2018; its best national rank was #4,468 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,214 in 2020 to #5,590 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,709 in 2015 to #5,590 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 Wynter?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,900
676 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,380
0.04% of girls
Rank, 2025
#457
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,400 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wynter 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 1002%
School of 50010%

Put another way: gather 3,400 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wynter. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wynters were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wynter was born before 2019 — so the typical Wynter is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
45.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,728
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 45.5% of all recorded uses (4,882).

Is Wynter 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
−42
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−81
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+324
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.87×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.4%
Peak was 2021 (934)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#343
2021

Spellings of Wynter

Wynter is not the most common spelling — Winter is, with 33.9% against Wynter's 23.3%.

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 Wynter is used

Across 2016–2025, Wynter was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 459 girls, against 1 in 1,984 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 9,091).

11218 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 459
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 690
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 775
  4. 4Georgia1 in 813
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 840
  6. 6Alabama1 in 943
  7. 7Maryland1 in 962
  8. 8Michigan1 in 1,136

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.

Geographically, Wynter is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 83% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Wynter around the world

Where Wynter 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
    2006–2025
    #622
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2018–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2017–2025
    #544
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #934
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Wynter in other languages

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

Winter

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

Wynter by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#457
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 81
Best rank ever
#343
2021
Peak year
2021
934 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,728
Count in 2025
676

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,590
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 376
Best rank ever
#4,468
2018
Peak year
2018
23 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
249
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Wynter

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

WynonaCarterHesterHunterWinterWynnterKarterEsterWynneEasterWynnWalterWynellPorterWynonnaWynnieWynemaJupiterWynetteLesterAsterFosterPeterWynelle

Names with a curve like Wynter

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

KalaniEsmeEmoryAntonellaAlessiaAlayaAzaleaJulietaMaisieKatalinaEloraLilith

Sibling names for Wynter

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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