Windy

Where Windy comes from

Often a diminutive of names starting with Wi-, such as Wilhelmina and Winifred, with -y. Influenced by windy.
— Wiktionary's entry for Windy
  • Vowel-ended
Windy through the years
  1. 1948
    First appearance
    #3,593 among girls with 9 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Peak, #551
    310 babies named Windy, the most in any year.
  3. 1980
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #966.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Windy in Wikidata.

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.