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How popular is the name Winifred?

Births per year, rank history and how many Winifreds are alive today.

Winifred (female), once a common girls' name, is now an uncommon choice for new babies in England and Wales, ranked 364th in 2025 with 118 given the name. The name peaked in 1914, when around 11,300 babies were given the name, the 10th most popular that year. It has declined since 1914; the 2025 figure is roughly 1% of its peak. Numbers have been rising in recent years. At least 230,000 babies have been named Winifred in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

The Winifred you are most likely to meet is around 79 years old. Half of all Winifreds born in England and Wales are between 58 and 87, and there are at least 24,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 7.3% chance that at least one of them will be called Winifred.

How many babies are named Winifred each year?

Where does Winifred rank among girls' names?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.