Winter Girl
How popular is Winter?
#426 girl name in 2025
732 baby girls were named Winter in the US in 2025, making it the 426th most popular girl name. Another 77 boys got the name (#1,976 for boys).
Winter popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #426 for girls (▼ 41 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 732 girls, 77 boys |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+29% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #547 in 2015, #315 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (1,053 girls) |
| Highest rank | #304 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 1954 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 6% boys, 94% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.6% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Winter counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Winter family of names ranked #238 for girls in 2025 (#214 the year before), with 1,423 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Winter | 732 | 51% |
| Wynter | 676 | 48% |
| Wynnter | 10 | 1% |
| Wynterr | 5 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Winter is most popular
Babies named Winter per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Alaska: 2.8 per 1,000 (24 girls)
- Maine: 1.3 per 1,000 (20 girls)
- Nevada: 1.2 per 1,000 (57 girls)
- West Virginia: 1.1 per 1,000 (28 girls)
- New Mexico: 1.0 per 1,000 (24 girls)
Winter by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #5,751 |
| 1960s | 28 | #5,456 |
| 1970s | 467 | #703 |
| 1980s | 841 | #1,026 |
| 1990s | 1,282 | #1,042 |
| 2000s | 2,044 | #1,012 |
| 2010s | 5,495 | #325 |
| 2020s | 5,457 | #304 |
Girl names about as popular as Winter
Questions
- Is Winter a boy or girl name?
- Winter is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 94% of babies named Winter were girls.
- How popular is the name Winter?
- 732 baby girls were named Winter in the US in 2025, making it the 426th most popular girl name. Another 77 boys got the name (#1,976 for boys).
- When was Winter most popular?
- Winter peaked in 2022, when 1,053 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #304 in 2022.
- How many people are named Winter?
- 16,656 babies have been named Winter in the US since 1880. We estimate about 16,513 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 9.
- Where is Winter most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Winter was most common in Alaska, at 2.8 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.