Winter

#426 for girls in 2025, 732 births · #1,976 for boys in 2025, 77 births
Given to girls 93.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
2022 · 1,053 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
15,619
since 1954

Winter over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202023girlsat peakboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#426732#1,97677
2024#385819#2,31361
2023#369831#2,41656
2022#3041,053#2,21765
2021#3221,013#2,04072
2020#3151,009#2,50551
2019#325985#2,58250
2018#388799#3,17136
2017#446709#2,84042
2016#502622#2,66146
2015#547568#3,36533
2014#552561#3,15435
2013#658433#4,80419
2012#770358#3,23134
2011#1,036240#6,25613
2010#1,120220#6,69812
2009#1,012261#5,80015
2008#1,090238#5,76715
2007#1,357178#5,90114
2006#1,182206#6,46012
2005#1,203190#3,94123
2004#1,114205#6,13812
2003#1,180182#4,42618
2002#1,049205#3,55424
2001#1,040206#3,84221
2000#1,162173#4,78515
1999#1,154169#4,76214
1998#1,043189#4,41315
1997#1,071177#4,66813
1996#1,071173#4,87812
1995#1,254135#4,28014
1994#1,364122#5,10911
1993#1,67989#6,2288
1992#1,81879#7,4226
1991#1,91373#8,2365
1990#1,86276
1989#1,85171
1988#1,98660
1987#1,66273
1986#1,77065#5,9266
1985#2,04852#6,5235
1984#1,47578#5,5616
1983#1,31192#4,4998
1982#1,268101
1981#1,200109#4,9617
1980#1,026140#4,9407
1979#703241#4,0689
1978#995137#4,5547
1977#2,78029#5,8455
1976#3,28721
1975#6,4848
1974#5,7769#3,8378
1973#5,5809
1972#6,5587
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1969#7,4715
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First appearance
1954

The first year at least five girls were named Winter! It came in at #5,753, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1954–1960, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Winter
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 41 spots since 2024 (#385#426)
  • 111 spots since 2020 (#315#426)
  • 121 spots since 2015 (#547#426)
  • Biggest jump: 1,785 spots in 1978 (#2,780#995)
  • Biggest drop: 323 spots in 1980 (#703#1,026)
Rise & fade · girls
68 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1954
  • Peaked 2022 at #304 (1,053 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 16 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2012–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,558
  • Highest: 1 in 1,558 girls born in 2022 were named Winter (0.06%)
  • Latest: 1 in 2,196 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 35.2% of all girls named Winter (5,495) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s5#5,753 (1954)#5,753
1960s28#5,457 (1967)#6,428
1970s467#703 (1979)#4,359
1980s841#1,026 (1980)#1,560
1990s1,282#1,043 (1998)#1,423
2000s2,044#1,012 (2009)#1,139
2010s5,495#325 (2019)#634
2020s5,457#304 (2022)#354

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Winter in 2023

girls
#369
831 births · 1 in 1,931 girls
boys
#2,416
56 births · 1 in 30,546 boys

Top girls' names in 2023

  1. #1Olivia15,329
  2. #2Emma13,590
  3. #3Charlotte12,638
  4. #4Amelia12,365
  5. #5Sophia11,999
  6. #6Mia11,404
  7. #7Isabella10,871
  8. #8Ava9,737
  9. #9Evelyn9,121
  10. #10Luna7,853
  11. #369Winter831

Top boys' names in 2023

  1. #1Liam20,904
  2. #2Noah19,116
  3. #3Oliver14,792
  4. #4James11,739
  5. #5Elijah11,523
  6. #6Mateo11,293
  7. #7Theodore11,093
  8. #8Henry10,996
  9. #9Lucas10,890
  10. #10William10,673
  11. #2,416Winter56
More about 2023

girls

1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 1,931 of them was named Winter, which outranked 97.9% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Winter
  1. #365Emory841
  2. #367Itzel840
  3. #368Hayden834
  4. #369Winter831
  5. #370Aurelia829
  6. #370Brooklynn829
  7. #372Aniyah828
Biggest movers since 2022
Risers
  1. 1,640Kaeli#2,319#679
  2. 1,512Alitzel#2,388#876
  3. 1,287Emryn#2,174#887
  4. 813Adhara#1,583#770
  5. 717Azari#1,412#695
Fallers
  1. 364Addilynn#940#1,304
  2. 296India#968#1,264
  3. 259Madisyn#805#1,064
  4. 231Chanel#937#1,168
  5. 219Averi#906#1,125

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 30,546 of them was named Winter, which outranked 83.0% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Winter
  1. #2,387Sameer57
  2. #2,387Whit57
  3. #2,387Williams57
  4. #2,416Winter56
  5. #2,416Advaith56
  6. #2,416Arya56
  7. #2,416Binyamin56
  8. #2,441Aero55
  9. #2,441Antwan55
  10. #2,441Aviraj55

Tied with 24 names at #2,416; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2022
Risers
  1. 858Izael#1,665#807
  2. 662Chozen#1,479#817
  3. 589Eiden#1,479#890
  4. 409Cassian#938#529
  5. 385Kyren#1,322#937
Fallers
  1. 384Dior#842#1,226
  2. 275Maxton#963#1,238
  3. 205Davian#967#1,172
  4. 193Braden#935#1,128
  5. 191Heath#862#1,053

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2023