girls:
3.7k births since 1899
#2838 (50th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 1899
#4505 (42nd percentile)
The name Wynona is the #4,505 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,707 recorded births since 1899. This represents the 41.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,838 (50.3% percentile) for all time with 3,707 births since 1899.
Wynona first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1899 (first recorded for girls in 1899). Birth data for Wynona is available in 115 out of the 125 years between 1899 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, Wynona reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 15.5% percentile (ranked #501) with 83 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 83 births per million (ranked 15.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Wynona ranks #911 for girls (3.8% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 28.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wynona".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Wynona. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.5% confident that Wynona is pronounced as wai-NOH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is wih-NOH-nuh, at 26.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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