Winnie

What Winnie means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #117 vs #475 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Winnie?

US: Rising: up from #1183 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #609 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1898, when 304 girls got the name (#164 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 2,488 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 609 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 497 baby girls in Scotland 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 SD (1.64 per 1,000 girls), ME (1.61 per 1,000 girls), WV (1.38 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Winnie is #475 in the US and #117 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 Winnie were girls.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Whinnie0 US · 3 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 Winnie

Girls

• Margot#102Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #592 in 2015, #102 in 2025
• Wrenley#158Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #158 vs #1,454 in 2025
• Rosie#283Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #775 in 2015, #283 in 2025
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*
• Ruth#173Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 26,102 babies; 1,781 in 2025
• Cecilia#108possibly “blind”^*

For a brother

• Theodore#4Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #99 in 2015, #4 in 2025
• Lorenzo#117Editor’s note Up from #216 in 2015 to #117 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 560 US boys in the 2025 records
• Beau#60Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #203 in 2015, #60 in 2025
• Leon#138“lion”^*
• Theo#82Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #405 in 2015, #82 in 2025
• Rory#199“red-haired king”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Winnie’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.