girls:
44.6k births since 1880
#631 (89th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1882
#3495 (24th percentile)
overall:
45.7k births since 1880
#1142 (85th percentile)
The name Winifred is the #1,142 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 45,667 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 85.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #631 (89.0% percentile) for all time with 44,561 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,495 (23.7% percentile) for all time with 1,106 births since 1882.
Winifred has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1882 for boys).
The name Winifred has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Winifred reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 76.4% percentile (ranked #137) with 1,358 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 1,358 births per million (ranked 76.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1998, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Winifred ranks #690 for girls (27.2% percentile) with 153 births per million, which is 11.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Winifred reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 7.9% percentile (ranked #489) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 54 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Winifred".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Winifred. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.3% confident that Winifred is pronounced as WIH-nuh-frehd, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WIH-nih-frehd, at 21.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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