Winifred

Where Winifred comes from

From Old English Winfriþ, from Welsh Gwenfrewi.
— Wiktionary's entry for Winifred
  • Welsh
Along the way
  1. 1877
    Winifred McNair born
    English tennis player
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #149 among girls — 92 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1897
    Winifred Wagner born
    Wife of Siegfried Wagner
  4. 1917
    Peak, #141
    1,526 babies named Winifred — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1930
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #230.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Welsh.
Namesakes
  • Winifred Wagner · Wife of Siegfried Wagner, 1897–1980
  • Winifred McNair · English tennis player, 1877–1954
  • Winifred Holtby · British writer, 1898–1935
  • Winifred Asprey · American computer scientist and mathematician, 1917–2007
  • Winifred Atwell · Trinidad and Tobago musician, 1914–1983

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.