Winifred
Winifred Origin and Meaning
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.
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Winifred Rank in US Top 1000
Winifred Rank in Nameberry Top 1000
Winifred Popularity
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Famous People Named Winifred
- (Una) Winifred AtwellTrinidadian pianist
- Winifred May Birkinbirth name of English socialite Freda Dudley Ward
- Winifred Sweet Black BonfilsAmerican journalist
- Winifred "Winnie" CarneyIrish independence activist and suffragist
- Winifred CavendishBentinck, Duchess of Portland, British philanthropist
- Winifred Rockefeller EmenyAmerican socialite, granddaughter of mogul William Rockefeller
- Maud Isabel "Winifred" EmeryEnglish stage actress
- Winifred GreenwoodAmerican silent film actress
- Winifred Florence ShotterEnglish actress
- Winifred Margaret Slocock McNairEnglish tennis player
- Winifred HoltbyEnglish novelist
- Winifred Lewellin JamesAustralian writer
- Winifred LambBritish classical archaeologist
- Winifred Milius LubellAmerican illustrator and writer
- Winifred MaxwellCountess of Nithsdale, English Catholic noblewoman
- Winifred PhillipsAmerican video game composer
- Winifred RobinsonEnglish radio presenter
- (Margaret) Winifred RushforthScottish psychoanalyst
- Winifred Sackville Stoner aka Mother Stonerfounder of the Natural Education movement
- Winifred Sackville StonerJr., American poet
- Winifred Coombe TennantWelsh politician and spiritualist medium
- Winifred Marjorie Williams Wagnerwife of composer Siegfried Wagner; daughter,in,law of Richard Wagner
- Winifred Eileen WatsonEnglish novelist
- Winifred Elaine "Wynne" GibsonAmerican actress
- Winifred Wellsmistress to King Charles II of England
- Winifred WestoverAmerican actress
- Winifred HoranAmerican fiddler of groups Cherish the Ladies and Solas
Winifred in Pop Culture
- Winifred "Winnie" Rosecharacter on the TV series "Anne with an E"
- Dora Winifred "D.W." Readcharacter in "Arthur" series by Marc Brown
- Lady Winifredcharacter in "Lady Connie" by Mrs Humphry Ward
- Princess Winifredcharacter in "Once Upon a Mattress"
- Winifred Bankscharacter in "Mary Poppins"
- Winifred "Fred" Burklecharacter on "Angel"
- Winifred Dartiecharacter in "Forsyte" saga by John Galsworthy
- Winifred "Winnie" Fostercharacter in "Tuck Everlasting"
- Winifred Fowlcharacter on "Jimmy Neutron"
- Winnifred Jamescharacter in St Clare series by Enid Blyton
- Winifred Madgersin "Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings and Legacy" by Charles Dickens
- Winifred "Winnie" Perrycharacter in "The Winnie Years" by Lauren Myracle
- Winifred Sandersoncharacter in "Hocus Pocus"
- Winifred Woodin "Jack Sheppard" by William Harrison Ainsworth
- Winifred PortleyRind "Winnie" in the film 'The Boxtrolls'
- Winifred Jameshead,girl in the "St Clare" book series by Enid Blyton
- Sister Winifredcharacter on the TV series "Call the Midwife"
- Winifred "Wendy" Torrance character in "The Shining" by Stephen King
- Winifred "Freddie" Brookscharacter on the TV series "A Different World"
- Winifred "Freddie" Pinkcharacter on the TV series "Murdoch Mysteries"
- St Winefride's Wellpossibly the oldest continually active pilgrimage site in all of Britain