girls:
14k births since 1954
#1301 (77th percentile)
boys:
897 births since 1974
#3692 (19th percentile)
overall:
14.9k births since 1954
#2149 (72nd percentile)
The name Winter is the #2,149 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,944 recorded births since 1954. This represents the 72.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,301 (77.2% percentile) for all time with 14,047 births since 1954. For boys, it ranks #3,692 (19.4% percentile) for all time with 897 births since 1974.
Winter first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1954 (1954 for girls and 1974 for boys). Birth data for Winter is available in 59 out of the 70 years between 1954 and 2023 (59 years for girls and 43 years for boys). 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 Winter has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.0% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 93.7% of babies named Winter were girls.
For girls, Winter reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 69.6% percentile (ranked #292) with 585 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 585 births per million (ranked 69.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Winter ranks #345 for girls (63.6% percentile) with 472 births per million, which is 80.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Winter reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #864) with 38 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 38 births per million (ranked 7.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Winter ranks #860 for boys (5.6% percentile) with 31 births per million, which is 80.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Winter".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Winter is pronounced as WIHN-ter, which has 2 syllables.
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