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Wynema vs Wynne

American parents have registered 1,877 Wynnes since 1880, against 736 Wynemas. Wynne is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Wynema 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 115 years in which either name was published, Wynne for 87 years and Wynema for 28 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Wynema Wynne
Total US births 7361,877
Most in one year 3347
Babies in 2025 under 532
Estimated living today 2201,500
Median age today 7638
Peak year 19342019
Best rank 1,236th girls3,337th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,352nd
First recorded 19071904
Girls / boys 736 / 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 Wynemas alive today are over 76; half the Wynnes are over 38. That is 38 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 Wynne.