Windle
Last seen for boys in 1976 at #5,587
- Peak · boys
- 1941 · 21 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 413since 1916
Windle over time
Rank among boys' names. Windle has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | — | |
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| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
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| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
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| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
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| 1956 | #3,216 | 7 |
| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
| 1954 | #3,452 | 6 |
| 1953 | #3,143 | 7 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 5 |
| 1950 | #2,207 | 12 |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,326 | 11 |
| 1947 | #2,169 | 13 |
| 1946 | #2,919 | 7 |
| 1945 | #2,574 | 8 |
| 1944 | #1,988 | 13 |
| 1943 | #1,636 | 19 |
| 1942 | #1,682 | 18 |
| 1941 | #1,485 | 21 |
| 1940 | #1,573 | 19 |
| 1939 | #2,449 | 9 |
| 1938 | #1,741 | 16 |
| 1937 | #2,197 | 11 |
| 1936 | #2,184 | 11 |
| 1935 | #2,396 | 10 |
| 1934 | #2,563 | 9 |
| 1933 | #1,644 | 18 |
| 1932 | #2,638 | 9 |
| 1931 | #2,003 | 14 |
| 1930 | #2,609 | 10 |
| 1929 | #3,247 | 7 |
| 1928 | #1,902 | 17 |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,566 | 11 |
| 1925 | #3,155 | 8 |
| 1924 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,614 | 11 |
| 1922 | #3,014 | 9 |
| 1921 | #4,322 | 5 |
| 1920 | — | |
| 1919 | #3,391 | 7 |
| 1918 | #3,728 | 6 |
| 1917 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,177 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Windle! It came in at #3,177, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Windle is popular in 1950
No state had 5 or more boys named Windle in 1950, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Windle
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1976
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1941 at #1,485 (21 births)
- Births halved by 1945, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 55,085 boys born in 1933 were named Windle (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 313,801 boys born in 1976 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,485 in 1941, was only 1 in 58,491 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.2% of all boys named Windle (129) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 20 | #3,177 (1916) | #3,432 |
| 1920s | 68 | #1,902 (1928) | #2,974 |
| 1930s | 117 | #1,644 (1933) | #2,242 |
| 1940s | 129 | #1,485 (1941) | #2,039 |
| 1950s | 47 | #2,207 (1950) | #3,372 |
| 1960s | 11 | #3,673 (1968) | #3,856 |
| 1970s | 21 | #4,441 (1972) | #5,100 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Windle in 1950
Top boys' names in 1950
More about 1950
boys
1,790,262 boys got a published name in 1950; 1 in 149,189 of them was named Windle, which outranked 47.4% of the 4,196 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,111Wells13
- #2,111Weyman13
- #2,111Winifred13
- #2,207Windle12
- #2,207Adrain12
- #2,207Alvan12
- #2,207Alwyn12
- #2,321Abran11
- #2,321Alexandro11
- #2,321Alphonsa11
Tied with 113 names at #2,207; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.