girls:
351 births since 1909
#5365 (6th percentile)
boys:
10.1k births since 1880
#1162 (75th percentile)
overall:
10.5k births since 1880
#2593 (66th percentile)
The name Winfred is the #2,593 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,455 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 66.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 66.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,162 (74.7% percentile) for all time with 10,104 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,365 (6.1% percentile) for all time with 351 births since 1909.
Winfred has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1909 for girls). Birth data for Winfred is available in 137 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (137 years for boys and 44 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Winfred has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Winfred reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 38.0% percentile (ranked #339) with 217 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 223 births per million (ranked 35.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Winfred ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Winfred reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #576) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1980.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Winfred".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Winfred. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.2% confident that Winfred is pronounced as WIHN-frehd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WIHN-frihd, at 15.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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