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Wynelle vs Wynne

American parents have registered 1,877 Wynnes since 1880, against 548 Wynelles. Wynne is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Wynelle 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

Of the 114 years in which either name was published, Wynne for 91 years and Wynelle for 23 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Wynelle Wynne
Total US births 5481,877
Most in one year 2647
Babies in 2025 under 532
Estimated living today 1101,500
Median age today 8338
Peak year 19262019
Best rank 1,623rd girls3,337th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,352nd
First recorded 19131904
Girls / boys 548 / 01,710 / 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 Wynelles alive today are over 83; half the Wynnes are over 38. That is 45 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: Wynelle and Wynne.