Winnie

Where Winnie comes from

Diminutives + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Winnie
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #219 among girls — 49 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #159
    84 babies named Winnie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1936
    Winnie Madikizela-Mandela born
    South African activist and politician
  4. 1959
    Winnie Byanyima born
    20th and 21st-century Ugandan aeronautical engineer, politician and diplomat
  5. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,827.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Winifred or, less often, of Winona.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Winston.
  • A census-designated place in Chambers County, Texas, United States, named after Fox Winnie, a railroad contractor.
  • An unincorporated community in Nottoway County, Virginia, United States.
Namesakes
  • Winnie Madikizela-Mandela · South African activist and politician, 1936–2018
  • Winnie Byanyima · 20th and 21st-century Ugandan aeronautical engineer, politician and diplomat, born 1959
  • Winnie Harlow · Jamaican-Canadian fashion model, born 1994
  • Winnie Markus · German actress, 1921–2002
  • Winnie Ewing · Scottish politician, 1929–2023

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.