Winter
#426 for girls in 2025, 732 births · #1,976 for boys in 2025, 77 births
Given to girls 93.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 1,053 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,619since 1954
Winter over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #426 | 732 | #1,976 | 77 |
| 2024 | #385 | 819 | #2,313 | 61 |
| 2023 | #369 | 831 | #2,416 | 56 |
| 2022 | #304 | 1,053 | #2,217 | 65 |
| 2021 | #322 | 1,013 | #2,040 | 72 |
| 2020 | #315 | 1,009 | #2,505 | 51 |
| 2019 | #325 | 985 | #2,582 | 50 |
| 2018 | #388 | 799 | #3,171 | 36 |
| 2017 | #446 | 709 | #2,840 | 42 |
| 2016 | #502 | 622 | #2,661 | 46 |
| 2015 | #547 | 568 | #3,365 | 33 |
| 2014 | #552 | 561 | #3,154 | 35 |
| 2013 | #658 | 433 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #770 | 358 | #3,231 | 34 |
| 2011 | #1,036 | 240 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #1,120 | 220 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #1,012 | 261 | #5,800 | 15 |
| 2008 | #1,090 | 238 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | #1,357 | 178 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #1,182 | 206 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #1,203 | 190 | #3,941 | 23 |
| 2004 | #1,114 | 205 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #1,180 | 182 | #4,426 | 18 |
| 2002 | #1,049 | 205 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 2001 | #1,040 | 206 | #3,842 | 21 |
| 2000 | #1,162 | 173 | #4,785 | 15 |
| 1999 | #1,154 | 169 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #1,043 | 189 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #1,071 | 177 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #1,071 | 173 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #1,254 | 135 | #4,280 | 14 |
| 1994 | #1,364 | 122 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #1,679 | 89 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #1,818 | 79 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #1,913 | 73 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #1,862 | 76 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,851 | 71 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,986 | 60 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,662 | 73 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,770 | 65 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #2,048 | 52 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #1,475 | 78 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #1,311 | 92 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #1,268 | 101 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,200 | 109 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #1,026 | 140 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #703 | 241 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #995 | 137 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #2,780 | 29 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #3,287 | 21 | — | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 | — | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | — | |
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 | — | |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
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| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 | — | |
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| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Winter! It came in at #5,753, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1954–1960, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Winter is popular in 1984
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oklahoma#388 · 1 in 2,584
- South Carolina#496 · 1 in 3,527
- California#1,757 · 1 in 24,075
Best ever in a state: #43 in Alaska, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #388 | 8 | 1 in 2,584 |
| South Carolina | #496 | 5 | 1 in 3,527 |
| California | #1,757 | 8 | 1 in 24,075 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
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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 Winter
- 41 spots since 2024 (#385 → #426)
- 111 spots since 2020 (#315 → #426)
- 121 spots since 2015 (#547 → #426)
- Biggest jump: 1,785 spots in 1978 (#2,780 → #995)
- Biggest drop: 323 spots in 1980 (#703 → #1,026)
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 2022 at #304 (1,053 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2012–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,558 girls born in 2022 were named Winter (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,196 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 35.2% of all girls named Winter (5,495) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #5,753 (1954) | #5,753 |
| 1960s | 28 | #5,457 (1967) | #6,428 |
| 1970s | 467 | #703 (1979) | #4,359 |
| 1980s | 841 | #1,026 (1980) | #1,560 |
| 1990s | 1,282 | #1,043 (1998) | #1,423 |
| 2000s | 2,044 | #1,012 (2009) | #1,139 |
| 2010s | 5,495 | #325 (2019) | #634 |
| 2020s | 5,457 | #304 (2022) | #354 |
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.
Winter in 1984
Top girls' names in 1984
Top boys' names in 1984
More about 1984
girls
1,683,817 girls got a published name in 1984; 1 in 21,587 of them was named Winter, which outranked 87.9% of the 12,181 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,459Paulina79
- #1,459Shawnta79
- #1,459Tarra79
- #1,475Winter78
- #1,475Ahsley78
- #1,475Anika78
- #1,475Carin78
- #1,490Brett77
- #1,490Cassey77
- #1,490Dalila77
Tied with 14 names at #1,475; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,804,848 boys got a published name in 1984; 1 in 300,808 of them was named Winter, which outranked 24.2% of the 7,341 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,973Zenon7
- #4,973Zeus7
- #4,973Zubair7
- #5,561Winter6
- #5,561Aaryn6
- #5,561Abdulaziz6
- #5,561Abdur6
- #6,315Abbott5
- #6,315Abdel5
- #6,315Abdon5
Tied with 753 names at #5,561; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.