girls:
5k births since 1880
#2392 (58th percentile)
overall:
5k births since 1880
#3861 (50th percentile)
The name Winnifred is the #3,861 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,994 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 50.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,392 (58.1% percentile) for all time with 4,994 births since 1880.
Winnifred has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Winnifred is available in 116 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Winnifred reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 26.9% percentile (ranked #419) with 148 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 190 births per million (ranked 11.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Winnifred ranks #891 for girls (5.9% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 18.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Winnifred".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Winnifred", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 7 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Winifred" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Winifred..
Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Winnifred. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.0% confident that Winnifred is pronounced as WIH-nuh-frehd, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WIH-nih-frehd, at 28.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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