Winifred

What Winifred means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Winifred yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #1,437 in 2015 to #922 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Winifred?

US: Rising: up from #1437 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #845 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1917, when 1,526 girls got the name (#141 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 5,659 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,146 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NE (0.7 per 1,000 girls), OR (0.61 per 1,000 girls), WI (0.54 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Winifred is #922 in the US and #364 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Winifred were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Winnifred70 US · 20 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Winifred

Girls

• Blaire#384Variant of Blair, meaning “field, plain”^*
• Gwendolyn#360Variant of Gwendolen, meaning “white, fair, blessed + ring, bow…^*
• Ellis#682“benevolent, kind”^*
• Guinevere#898Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #898 vs #2,788 in 2025
• Gwen#725Same root as Wendy, meaning “watercourse with a bend + island”^*
• Rory#230“red-haired king”^*

For a brother

• Ellis#243“benevolent, kind”^*
• Harvey#251“iron + blazing”^*
• Rory#199“red-haired king”^*
• Killian#417Editor’s note Down from #349 in 2015 to #417 in 2025 in the US
• Idris#694Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #142 vs #694 in 2025
• Alistair#897“to defend + man”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Irish & Celtic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Winifred’s. Rank is US 2025.