Winnifred

“Variant of Winifred — Blessed stream” — Welsh (via Old English Winfriþ) origin

Girl's name · #2540 in the US (2025) · Timeless

Few names move less than Winnifred — on the books since 1880, #2540 in 2025, and dependable in between. Roughly 5,100 girls share it. Together with its spelling variant Winifred (#923), Winnifred would rank around #766 with about 350 births last year — the newborns split about 80/20 between Winifred and Winnifred.

Around the world: about 1 in 9,200 girls in Canada (2024) · about 1 in 13,000 girls in England & Wales (2025).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 1 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Winnifreds

Winnifred Sprague Mason Huck — American politician
Winnifred Selby — Ghanaian social entrepreneur
Winnifred Eaton — Canadian writer author
Winnifred Harper Cooley — American author and lecturer
Winnifred Quick — Survivor of the Titanic (1904-2002)

What Winnifreds become

Among 18 notable people named Winnifred:

Artists & writers appear 2× more often than among typical names — e.g. Winnifred Eaton, Canadian writer author.

Similar names: Winifred · Louella · Wynona · Lennie · Winsley · Iona

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