Winifred

Welsh

"blessed peacemaking"

Winifred Origin and Meaning

The name Winifred is a girl's name of Welsh origin meaning "blessed peacemaking".

One of the few remaining unrestored vintage gems, with a choice of two winning nicknames--the girlish Winnie and the tomboyish Freddie--as well as the slight stretch Freda. Winifred, the name of a legendary Welsh saint, was a Top 200 name into the mid-1920's.

Winifred was one of the Forsytes in The Forsyte Saga, Winifred Foster was the heroine of Tuck Everlasting, and another appeared in Joss Wheden's Angel; in Once Upon a Mattress, Princess Winnifred (two n's) sings the song 'A Girl Named Fred'. The Disney folks seem to have been fond of the name--they used it in Jungle Book, Mary Poppins and Hocus Pocus.

Actress Jacqueline Bisset was born a Winifred and notable Winnies include Mrs. Mandela and the young girlfriend on The Wonder Years.

Winifred Rank in US Top 1000

# 992 in the US

Winifred Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 168 on Nameberry

Winifred Popularity

• 168 Nameberry 2024
• 93 Unique 2022
• 927 Future 2028
• 516 England 2021

20 Names Similar to Winifred

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Famous People Named Winifred

• (Una) Winifred Atwell Trinidadian pianist
• Winifred May Birkin birth name of English socialite Freda Dudley Ward
• Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils American journalist
• Winifred "Winnie" Carney Irish independence activist and suffragist
• Winifred Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, British philanthropist
• Winifred Rockefeller Emeny American socialite, granddaughter of mogul William Rockefeller
• Maud Isabel "Winifred" Emery English stage actress
• Winifred Greenwood American silent film actress
• Winifred Florence Shotter English actress
• Winifred Margaret Slocock McNair English tennis player
• Winifred Holtby English novelist
• Winifred Lewellin James Australian writer
• Winifred Lamb British classical archaeologist
• Winifred Milius Lubell American illustrator and writer
• Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale, English Catholic noblewoman
• Winifred Phillips American video game composer
• Winifred Robinson English radio presenter
• (Margaret) Winifred Rushforth Scottish psychoanalyst
• Winifred Sackville Stoner aka Mother Stoner founder of the Natural Education movement
• Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr., American poet
• Winifred Coombe Tennant Welsh politician and spiritualist medium
• Winifred Marjorie Williams Wagner wife of composer Siegfried Wagner; daughter,in,law of Richard Wagner
• Winifred Eileen Watson English novelist
• Winifred Elaine "Wynne" Gibson American actress
• Winifred Wells mistress to King Charles II of England
• Winifred Westover American actress
• Winifred Horan American fiddler of groups Cherish the Ladies and Solas

Winifred in Pop Culture

• Winifred "Winnie" Rose character on the TV series "Anne with an E"
• Dora Winifred "D.W." Read character in "Arthur" series by Marc Brown
• Lady Winifred character in "Lady Connie" by Mrs Humphry Ward
• Princess Winifred character in "Once Upon a Mattress"
• Winifred Banks character in "Mary Poppins"
• Winifred "Fred" Burkle character on "Angel"
• Winifred Dartie character in "Forsyte" saga by John Galsworthy
• Winifred "Winnie" Foster character in "Tuck Everlasting"
• Winifred Fowl character on "Jimmy Neutron"
• Winnifred James character in St Clare series by Enid Blyton
• Winifred Madgers in "Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings and Legacy" by Charles Dickens
• Winifred "Winnie" Perry character in "The Winnie Years" by Lauren Myracle
• Winifred Sanderson character in "Hocus Pocus"
• Winifred Wood in "Jack Sheppard" by William Harrison Ainsworth
• Winifred Portley Rind "Winnie" in the film 'The Boxtrolls'
• Winifred James head,girl in the "St Clare" book series by Enid Blyton
• Sister Winifred character on the TV series "Call the Midwife"
• Winifred "Wendy" Torrance character in "The Shining" by Stephen King
• Winifred "Freddie" Brooks character on the TV series "A Different World"
• Winifred "Freddie" Pink character on the TV series "Murdoch Mysteries"
• St Winefride's Well possibly the oldest continually active pilgrimage site in all of Britain