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Winnifred

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

Girl's name · #2514 in the US (2025) · Timeless

Winnifred has appeared in US records since 1880 — best rank #413 (1888) · 5,127 babies named Winnifred all-time · 1 in 25,000 girls born in 2025.

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.

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