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Wynn

About 4,117 American babies have been named Wynn since 1912, most of them around 2025. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,708th. About 3,500 Wynns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Wynn boys named Wynn

Girls and boys called Wynn

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,486 girls and 2,631 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 120 to 95.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 51 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
4,117
Estimated living today
3,500
Median age today
13
Peak year
2025
Best rank
1,708th
Rank in 2025
1,708th
First recorded
1912
Girls / boys
1,486 / 2,631

How old the living Wynns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,117 babies given the name since 1912, about 3,500 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 2,100 of them are children and 590 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

From the Welsh surname, from the name Gwyn. Also spelled as Wynne.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Wynn is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Wynn is most concentrated in Utah (5.1×), Colorado (3.0×), California (2.9×), Wisconsin (2.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Wynn peaked:

All the names of 2025

Wynn elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Wynn 66 2,404th
Switzerland boys Wynn 9 1,526th
England and Wales girls Wynn 7 4,709th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Wynn: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Wynn 9 0.001% 1,233rd

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

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Wynn against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.