How Many People Are Named Winnifred?
people named Winnifred are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 261,503 people in the US has this name
Based on 5,127 babies named Winnifred in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
166 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of WINIFRED.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Winnifred in English. Counting Winnifred and these spellings together, about 11,907 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Winnifred in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Winnifred alive today is about 44 years old, and 49% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 5 and 77 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Winnifred first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1918, to 166 babies. In 2025, 70 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Winnifred has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #419, in 1888. In 2025 it ranked #2,540.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,540 |
| Best rank | #419 (1888) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #646 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Winnifred alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Winnifred were born in Michigan than in any other state: about 18 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Winnifred was given 14.7 times as often in Maine, 6.5 times in Washington and 6.3 times in Minnesota.
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