Winfield vs Winter
American parents have registered 16,656 Winters since 1880, against 5,214 Winfields. Winter is still ahead, with 809 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Winfield Winter
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 146 years in which either name was published, Winfield for 95 years and Winter for 51 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.
Side by side
| Winfield | Winter | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 5,214 | 16,656 |
| Most in one year | 125 | 1,118 |
| Babies in 2025 | 8 | 809 |
| Estimated living today | 1,500 | 16,000 |
| Median age today | 62 | 8 |
| Peak year | 1916 | 2022 |
| Best rank | 505th boys | 304th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 8,910th | 426th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1954 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 5,214 | 15,619 / 1,037 |
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 Winfields alive today are over 62; half the Winters are over 8. That is 54 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Winfield Maine (12.6×), Pennsylvania (6.8×), New Jersey (4.7×)
- Winter Nevada (3.3×), Alaska (3.1×), Washington (1.9×)
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: Winfield and Winter.