Windy

#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · Last seen for boys in 1983 at #5,484
Given to girls 99.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
1975 · 310 births
Debut · girls
9 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
4,971
since 1948

Windy over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Windy has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201950peak #551, 1975girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#13,2086—
2024#11,1228—
2023——
2022#10,3839—
2021#13,4646—
2020#13,4536—
2019——
2018#10,5459—
2017#12,7137—
2016#14,3316—
2015#13,0067—
2014#10,9559—
2013#11,0009—
2012#11,2579—
2011#13,3477—
2010#11,2469—
2009#15,2426—
2008#13,8327—
2007#8,09815—
2006#8,23714—
2005#7,89114—
2004#9,26411—
2003#7,99813—
2002#8,83711—
2001#8,75811—
2000#7,15814—
1999#7,23913—
1998#4,63623—
1997#5,22819—
1996#4,73921—
1995#5,43917—
1994#5,01619—
1993#3,58530—
1992#4,23624—
1991#3,72228—
1990#2,37452—
1989#3,40230—
1988#2,41945—
1987#1,99156—
1986#2,17048—
1985#1,85660—
1984#1,47578—
1983#1,46379#5,4846
1982#1,39987—
1981#998146—
1980#966153—
1979#730227—
1978#717220—
1977#719215—
1976#622251—
1975#551310—
1974#584270#4,6346
1973#627242—
1972#593270—
1971#652249—
1970#706220—
1969#754178—
1968#794159—
1967#779161—
1966#1,17183—
1965#1,30269—
1964#1,39365—
1963#1,44959—
1962#1,41961—
1961#1,56852—
1960#1,39362—
1959#1,49952—
1958#1,44854—
1957#1,90433—
1956#1,71738—
1955#2,72517—
1954#2,24023—
1953#2,17323—
1952#3,04013—
1951#2,93713—
1950#2,65215—
1949#4,2357—
1948#3,5939—
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First appearance
1948

The first year at least five girls were named Windy! It came in at #3,593, and was given to 9 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2019, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Windy is popular in 1950

No state had 5 or more girls named Windy in 1950, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Windy
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 2,086 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #13,208)
  • 245 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #13,208)
  • 202 spots since 2015 (#13,006 → #13,208)
  • Biggest jump: 392 spots in 1967 (#1,171 → #779)
  • Biggest drop: 401 spots in 1982 (#998 → #1,399)
Rise & fade · girls
27 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1948
  • Peaked 1975 at #551 (310 births)
  • Births halved by 1980, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 15 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 1967–1981
Share of babies · girls
1 in 4,703
  • Highest: 1 in 4,703 girls born in 1975 were named Windy (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 49.8% of all girls named Windy (2,474) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s16#3,593 (1948)#3,914
1950s281#1,448 (1958)#2,234
1960s949#754 (1969)#1,202
1970s2,474#551 (1975)#650
1980s782#966 (1980)#1,814
1990s246#2,374 (1990)#4,621
2000s116#7,158 (2000)#9,532
2010s72#10,545 (2018)#12,044
2020s35#10,383 (2022)#12,326

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.

Windy in 1950

girls
#2,652
15 births · 1 in 114,204 girls

Top girls' names in 1950

  1. #1Linda80,433
  2. #2Mary65,481
  3. #3Patricia47,944
  4. #4Barbara41,556
  5. #5Susan38,017
  6. #6Nancy29,617
  7. #7Deborah29,063
  8. #8Sandra28,896
  9. #9Carol26,163
  10. #10Kathleen25,706
  11. #2,652Windy15
More about 1950

girls

1,713,054 girls got a published name in 1950; 1 in 114,204 of them was named Windy, which outranked 56.6% of the 6,109 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Windy
  1. #2,535Vincenza16
  2. #2,535Voncille16
  3. #2,535Wilhelmena16
  4. #2,652Windy15
  5. #2,652Alayne15
  6. #2,652Alejandra15
  7. #2,652Aletta15
  8. #2,781Albertine14
  9. #2,781Aquilla14
  10. #2,781Arliss14

Tied with 128 names at #2,652; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1949
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,242Mindy#2,013 → #771
  2. ↑ 649Geralyn#1,627 → #978
  3. ↑ 636Kyle#1,512 → #876
  4. ↑ 416Debrah#1,109 → #693
  5. ↑ 405Debbra#1,353 → #948
Fallers
  1. ↓ 241Luana#823 → #1,064
  2. ↓ 231Christene#930 → #1,161
  3. ↓ 216Pearline#785 → #1,001
  4. ↓ 210Ingrid#518 → #728
  5. ↓ 201Dayle#982 → #1,183

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

See the top 100 for 1950 →