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Winnefred vs Winnie

American parents have registered 27,337 Winnies since 1880, against 49 Winnefreds. Winnie is still ahead, with 646 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Winnefred 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 1916, when Winnefred had 11 and Winnie had 484.

Side by side

  Winnefred Winnie
Total US births 4927,337
Most in one year 11646
Babies in 2025 under 5646
Estimated living today 110,000
Median age today 9720
Peak year 19162025
Best rank 2,658th girls475th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked475th
First recorded 19161880
Girls / boys 49 / 027,109 / 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 Winnefreds alive today are over 97; half the Winnies are over 20. That is 77 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: Winnefred and Winnie.