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
Along the way
  1. 1948
    First appearance
    #3,593 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Peak, #551
    310 babies named Windy — more than any year before or since.
  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 known Windy turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.