Girls' name · peaked in 2022
Winter name popularity since 1925
16,656 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Winter (93.8% girls, 6.2% boys). Half of them were born in 2017 or earlier, so the typical Winter is about 9 years old in 2026. Winter peaked in 2022 as the #305 name for girls, and it ranked #426 in 2025.
Key facts
- US babies since 1925
- 16,656
- Named Winter, 1925–2025
- In 2025
- #426
- for girls in 2025 (732 babies)
- Girls / boys
- 93.8% girls
- 15,619 girls · 1,037 boys
- Most popular in
- Washington
- 1.83× its national share
Peak year is the year Winter made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.
Winter births per year, 1925–2025
2022 was the biggest year for Winter both by count and as a share of all babies.
- Fastest rise: Between 2011 and 2016, Winter became 2.6× more common, from 1 in 7,330 baby girls to 1 in 2,850.
Shaded on the chart. This compares Winter's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Winter.
Decade by decade
Babies named Winter in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).
| Decade | Girls | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925–29 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1930s | 0 | 0 | Under 5 |
| 1940s | 0 | 0 | Under 5 |
| 1950s | 5 | 0 | Under 5 |
| 1960s | 28 | 0 | Under 5 |
| 1970s | 467 | 29 | #7,155 |
| 1980s | 841 | 39 | #2,081 |
| 1990s | 1,282 | 98 | #1,260 |
| 2000s | 2,044 | 169 | #1,209 |
| 2010s | 5,495 | 320 | #547 |
| 2020–25 | 5,457 | 382 | #426 |
Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.
Generation fingerprint
64.7% of babies named Winter from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen Alpha years (2013–2025). The full split by generation:
Where Winter is most popular
The index compares Winter's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Winter.
| State | Index | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| Washington | 1.83× | 407 |
| Georgia | 1.50× | 550 |
| Florida | 1.49× | 714 |
| North Carolina | 1.48× | 557 |
| Tennessee | 1.48× | 414 |
Other spellings
Spellings that sound like Winter and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.
| Spelling | Girls | Peak year |
|---|---|---|
| Winter (this page) | 15,619 | 2022 |
| Wynter | 10,728 | 2021 |
Names with a similar story
Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Winter's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Winter.
Names from the same era
Other common names that peaked within two years of Winter (2022).
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data