How Many People Are Named Winter?
people named Winter are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 20,736 people in the US has this name
Based on 16,656 babies named Winter in Social Security records from 1954 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
1,118 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From the English word for the season, derived from Old English winter.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Winter in English. Counting Winter and these spellings together, about 27,370 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Winter, 93.8% were girls and 6.2% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1970s: 94.2% of the babies were girls then and 93.5% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Winter alive today is about 13 years old, and 88% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 19 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Winter first appears in the records in 1954 and was given most often in 2022, to 1,118 babies. In 2025, 809 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1954 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Winter has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #305, in 2022. In 2025 it ranked #426.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #426 |
| Best rank | #305 (2022) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #553 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Winter alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Winter were born in California than in any other state: about 1,556 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Winter was given 2.9 times as often in Alaska, 1.7 times in Oklahoma and 1.6 times in Nevada.
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