Win

Where Win comes from

Clipping of Winifred.
— Wiktionary's entry for Win
Along the way
  1. 1951
    First appearance
    #3,714 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1956
    Peak, #2,628
    10 babies named Win — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1959
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 2015
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Winifred.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Winston.
Namesakes

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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.