Winnifred

Where Winnifred comes from

The dictionaries list Winnifred as a given name — a female given name from Welsh, variant of Winifred — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Welsh
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1888
    Peak, #413
    36 babies named Winnifred — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1956
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,725.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Welsh, variant of Winifred.
Namesakes

No widely known Winnifred 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.