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Wynonna vs Wynter

American parents have registered 10,977 Wynters since 1880, against 532 Wynonnas. Wynter is still ahead, with 693 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Wynonna against Wynter, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Wynonna Wynter

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

Wynter has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1962 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Wynonna had 26 and Wynter had 31.

Side by side

  Wynonna Wynter
Total US births 53210,977
Most in one year 67952
Babies in 2025 63693
Estimated living today 53011,000
Median age today 46
Peak year 20242021
Best rank 2,607th girls343rd girls
Rank in 2025 2,719th456th
First recorded 19851962
Girls / boys 532 / 010,728 / 249

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 Wynters alive today are over 6; half the Wynonnas are over 4. That is 2 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: Wynonna and Wynter.