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Winifred vs Winthrop

American parents have registered 46,200 Winifreds since 1880, against 1,178 Winthrops. Winifred is still ahead, with 284 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Winifred against Winthrop, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Winifred Winthrop

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

Winifred 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 1976, when Winifred had 23 and Winthrop had 8.

Side by side

  Winifred Winthrop
Total US births 46,2001,178
Most in one year 1,64048
Babies in 2025 284under 5
Estimated living today 11,000410
Median age today 6866
Peak year 19181915
Best rank 144th girls893rd boys
Rank in 2025 922ndunranked
First recorded 18801883
Girls / boys 45,094 / 1,1060 / 1,178

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 Winifreds alive today are over 68; half the Winthrops are over 66. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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