Winnie
- Pronunciation
- [Wi-nnie]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- White Or Fair
- Origin
- Celtic
About the Name Winnie
Winnie is an affectionate short form most often tied to Winifred, a name of Welsh and Celtic character traditionally understood to mean "white," "fair," or "holy and blessed." Standing on its own, Winnie has irresistible vintage warmth — cozy, cheerful, and a little playful, the very picture of a sweet old-fashioned name reborn for a new generation of parents who love its snug, storybook charm.
That nostalgic charm is central to its appeal. Winnie reads as friendly and bright, riding the broad revival of Edwardian-era nicknames that parents now bestow as full first names in their own right rather than as shortenings. It has a warm, huggable quality that makes it feel both gently antique and thoroughly endearing. The single recorded variant is Winny, a slightly trimmed spelling of the same sweet sound.
Winnie is a recent entrant to the modern US Social Security top-1000, first appearing for girls in 2019 and reaching its peak in the most recent year tracked, 2024, at rank #550, with 551 girls given the name that year; it had stood at #592 in 2022 and #609 in 2023 as it climbed. Having accumulated 2,654 girls across this run, Winnie is a vintage darling firmly on the rise in contemporary American naming — cozy, cheerful, and irresistibly endearing, the very picture of a storybook name reborn.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Winnie
US Popularity History (2019–2025)
Annual US births named Winnie by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2025 with 646 girls named Winnie (girl rank #475 that year).
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Winnie Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Winnie the strongest states are Nebraska, Utah, Kansas.
Strongest girls-name states
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Jersey | #871 | 36 |
| 2 | California | #851 | 223 |
| 3 | Maryland | #824 | 27 |
| 4 | Alabama | #821 | 32 |
| 5 | Texas | #788 | 121 |
| 6 | Florida | #763 | 112 |
| 7 | New York | #759 | 181 |
| 8 | Illinois | #756 | 136 |
| 9 | North Carolina | #748 | 75 |
| 10 | South Carolina | #737 | 32 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Winnie in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Compare Winnie to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Winnie against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).
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