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Wynell vs Wynton

American parents have registered 1,033 Wynells since 1880, against 547 Wyntons. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Wynell against Wynton, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Wynell Wynton

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

Of the 97 years in which either name was published, Wynell for 55 years and Wynton for 42 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Wynell Wynton
Total US births 1,033547
Most in one year 4128
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 360530
Median age today 7729
Peak year 19321986
Best rank 1,116th girls2,057th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19131960
Girls / boys 1,027 / 60 / 547

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 Wynells alive today are over 77; half the Wyntons are over 29. That is 48 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: Wynell and Wynton.