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Winry vs Winter

American parents have registered 16,656 Winters since 1880, against 1,204 Winrys. Winter is still ahead, with 809 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Winry against Winter, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Winry 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

Winter has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1954 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Winry had 140 and Winter had 809.

Side by side

  Winry Winter
Total US births 1,20416,656
Most in one year 1401,118
Babies in 2025 140809
Estimated living today 1,20016,000
Median age today 48
Peak year 20252022
Best rank 1,518th girls304th girls
Rank in 2025 1,518th426th
First recorded 20101954
Girls / boys 1,204 / 015,619 / 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 Winters alive today are over 8; half the Winrys are over 4. That is 4 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Winry Winter
England and Wales 31,723
France 6045

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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