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Wynema vs Wynn

American parents have registered 4,117 Wynns since 1880, against 736 Wynemas. Wynn is still ahead, with 215 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Wynema against Wynn, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Wynema Wynn

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, Wynn for 86 years and Wynema for 28 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Wynema Wynn
Total US births 7364,117
Most in one year 33215
Babies in 2025 under 5215
Estimated living today 2203,500
Median age today 7613
Peak year 19342025
Best rank 1,236th girls1,708th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,708th
First recorded 19071912
Girls / boys 736 / 01,486 / 2,631

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 Wynemas alive today are over 76; half the Wynns are over 13. That is 63 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: Wynema and Wynn.