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
- Peak · girls
- 1975 · 310 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,971since 1948
Windy over time
Rank among girls' names. Windy has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | — | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | — | |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | — | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | — | |
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | — | |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | — | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | — | |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | — | |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | — | |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | — | |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | — | |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | — | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | — | |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 | — | |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | — | |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 | — | |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | — | |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | — | |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | — | |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | — | |
| 1998 | #4,636 | 23 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,739 | 21 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,439 | 17 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,016 | 19 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,585 | 30 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,236 | 24 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,722 | 28 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,374 | 52 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,402 | 30 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,419 | 45 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,991 | 56 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,170 | 48 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,856 | 60 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,475 | 78 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,463 | 79 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #1,399 | 87 | — | |
| 1981 | #998 | 146 | — | |
| 1980 | #966 | 153 | — | |
| 1979 | #730 | 227 | — | |
| 1978 | #717 | 220 | — | |
| 1977 | #719 | 215 | — | |
| 1976 | #622 | 251 | — | |
| 1975 | #551 | 310 | — | |
| 1974 | #584 | 270 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #627 | 242 | — | |
| 1972 | #593 | 270 | — | |
| 1971 | #652 | 249 | — | |
| 1970 | #706 | 220 | — | |
| 1969 | #754 | 178 | — | |
| 1968 | #794 | 159 | — | |
| 1967 | #779 | 161 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,171 | 83 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,302 | 69 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,393 | 65 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,449 | 59 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,419 | 61 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,568 | 52 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,393 | 62 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,499 | 52 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,448 | 54 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,904 | 33 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,717 | 38 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,725 | 17 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,240 | 23 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,173 | 23 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,040 | 13 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,937 | 13 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,652 | 15 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 | — | |
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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 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#311 · 1 in 1,705
- Washington#314 · 1 in 1,912
- Tennessee#373 · 1 in 2,533
- Kentucky#381 · 1 in 2,986
- Mississippi#398 · 1 in 2,191
Best ever in a state: #226 in North Carolina, 1975.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #311 | 10 | 1 in 1,705 |
| Washington | #314 | 12 | 1 in 1,912 |
| Tennessee | #373 | 11 | 1 in 2,533 |
| Kentucky | #381 | 8 | 1 in 2,986 |
| Arkansas | #398 | 5 | 1 in 2,516 |
| Mississippi | #398 | 7 | 1 in 2,191 |
| Georgia | #399 | 13 | 1 in 2,481 |
| North Carolina | #401 | 11 | 1 in 2,943 |
| Alabama | #461 | 7 | 1 in 3,107 |
| Missouri | #502 | 7 | 1 in 4,379 |
| Texas | #575 | 26 | 1 in 3,977 |
| Louisiana | #591 | 7 | 1 in 3,931 |
| Florida | #607 | 10 | 1 in 4,402 |
| Ohio | #685 | 9 | 1 in 7,662 |
| California | #763 | 24 | 1 in 6,389 |
| Michigan | #853 | 6 | 1 in 9,592 |
| Illinois | #983 | 7 | 1 in 10,129 |
| New York | #1,171 | 8 | 1 in 12,291 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Windy
- 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)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1975 at #551 (310 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 1967–1981
- 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%)
- 49.8% of all girls named Windy (2,474) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 16 | #3,593 (1948) | #3,914 |
| 1950s | 281 | #1,448 (1958) | #2,234 |
| 1960s | 949 | #754 (1969) | #1,202 |
| 1970s | 2,474 | #551 (1975) | #650 |
| 1980s | 782 | #966 (1980) | #1,814 |
| 1990s | 246 | #2,374 (1990) | #4,621 |
| 2000s | 116 | #7,158 (2000) | #9,532 |
| 2010s | 72 | #10,545 (2018) | #12,044 |
| 2020s | 35 | #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 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 6,963 of them was named Windy, which outranked 93.8% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #714Deidra221
- #714Lynne221
- #714Marisela221
- #717Windy220
- #717Cathleen220
- #717Maranda220
- #717Mercedes220
- #722Ida219
- #722Venus219
- #724Celia218
Tied with 4 names at #717; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.