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Wyn vs Wynne

American parents have registered 1,877 Wynnes since 1880, against 201 Wyns. Wynne is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Wyn Wynne

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

Wynne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1904 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Wyn had 25 and Wynne had 32.

Side by side

  Wyn Wynne
Total US births 2011,877
Most in one year 2547
Babies in 2025 2532
Estimated living today 1901,500
Median age today 638
Peak year 20222019
Best rank 5,215th boys3,337th girls
Rank in 2025 5,608th4,352nd
First recorded 19441904
Girls / boys 37 / 1641,710 / 167

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 Wynnes alive today are over 38; half the Wyns are over 6. That is 32 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Wyn Wynne
England and Wales 1137

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: Wyn and Wynne.