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Wynette vs Wynter

American parents have registered 10,977 Wynters since 1880, against 956 Wynettes. Wynter is still ahead, with 693 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Wynette against Wynter, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Wynette Wynter

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 107 years in which either name was published, Wynette for 59 years and Wynter for 48 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Wynette Wynter
Total US births 95610,977
Most in one year 39952
Babies in 2025 under 5693
Estimated living today 68011,000
Median age today 586
Peak year 19702021
Best rank 2,081st girls343rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked456th
First recorded 19141962
Girls / boys 956 / 010,728 / 249

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 Wynettes alive today are over 58; half the Wynters are over 6. That is 52 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: Wynette and Wynter.