Winthrop

Where Winthrop comes from

Winthrop hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1883
    First appearance
    #892 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1906
    Peak, #852
    9 babies named Winthrop — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1907
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1912
    Winthrop Rockefeller born
    Governor of Arkansas
  5. 1965
    Winthrop Graham born
    Jamaican hurdler
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Winthrop Rockefeller · Governor of Arkansas, 1912–1973
  • Winthrop Graham · Jamaican hurdler, born 1965
  • Winthrop Palmer · American ice hockey player, 1906–1970
  • Winthrop M. Crane · American politician, 1853–1920
  • Winthrop Mackworth Praed · British politician, poet, 1802–1839

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.