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Windsor vs Winnie

American parents have registered 27,337 Winnies since 1880, against 1,040 Windsors. Winnie is still ahead, with 646 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Windsor against Winnie, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Windsor Winnie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Winnie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1985, when Windsor had 13 and Winnie had 32.

Side by side

  Windsor Winnie
Total US births 1,04027,337
Most in one year 57646
Babies in 2025 37646
Estimated living today 82010,000
Median age today 920
Peak year 20242025
Best rank 5,443rd boys475th girls
Rank in 2025 5,861st475th
First recorded 19121880
Girls / boys 476 / 56427,109 / 228

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Winnies alive today are over 20; half the Windsors are over 9. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Windsor and Winnie.