Winifred
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Winifred
One of the few remaining unrestored vintage gems, with a choice of two winning nicknames--the girlish Winnie and the tomboyish Freddie. 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.
Formerly considered old and fusty, Winifred is back in and was featured in the US Top 1000 in 2023.
Winifred is also given to boys.
Pronounced WIN-i-fred.
As of October 2026, Winifred ranked #923 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #141 in 1917, Nameberry popularity #313.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,995 | 100 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #1,447 | 160 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #1,540 | 147 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #1,371 | 169 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #1,439 | 154 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #1,215 | 193 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #1,103 | 222 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #1,071 | 235 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #1,092 | 229 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #963 | 269 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #1,031 | 244 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #923 | 284 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Winifred for girls
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Winifred on lists
Famous Winifreds
- (Una) Winifred AtwellGirl
Trinidadian pianist
- Winifred May BirkinGirl
birth name of English socialite Freda Dudley Ward
- Winifred Sweet Black BonfilsGirl
American journalist
- Winifred "Winnie" CarneyGirl
Irish independence activist and suffragist
- Winifred CavendishGirl
Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, British philanthropist
- Winifred Rockefeller EmenyGirl
American socialite, granddaughter of mogul William Rockefeller
- Maud Isabel "Winifred" EmeryGirl
English stage actress
- Winifred GreenwoodGirl
American silent film actress
- Winifred Florence ShotterGirl
English actress
- Winifred Margaret Slocock McNairGirl
English tennis player
- Winifred HoltbyGirl
English novelist
- Winifred Lewellin JamesGirl
Australian writer
- Winifred LambGirl
British classical archaeologist
- Winifred Milius LubellGirl
American illustrator and writer
- Winifred MaxwellGirl
Countess of Nithsdale, English Catholic noblewoman
- Winifred PhillipsGirl
American video game composer
- Winifred RobinsonGirl
English radio presenter
- (Margaret) Winifred RushforthGirl
Scottish psychoanalyst
- Winifred Sackville Stoner aka Mother StonerGirl
founder of the Natural Education movement
- Winifred Sackville StonerGirl
Jr., American poet
- Winifred Coombe TennantGirl
Welsh politician and spiritualist medium
- Winifred Marjorie Williams WagnerGirl
wife of composer Siegfried Wagner; daughter,in,law of Richard Wagner
- Winifred Eileen WatsonGirl
English novelist
- Winifred Elaine "Wynne" GibsonGirl
American actress
- Winifred WellsGirl
mistress to King Charles II of England
- Winifred WestoverGirl
American actress
- Winifred HoranGirl
American fiddler of groups Cherish the Ladies and Solas
Winifred in pop culture
- Winifred "Winnie" RoseGirl
character on the TV series "Anne with an E"
- Dora Winifred "D.W." ReadGirl
character in "Arthur" series by Marc Brown
- Lady WinifredGirl
character in "Lady Connie" by Mrs Humphry Ward
- Princess WinifredGirl
character in "Once Upon a Mattress"
- Winifred BanksGirl
character in "Mary Poppins"
- Winifred "Fred" BurkleGirl
character on "Angel"
- Winifred DartieGirl
character in "Forsyte" saga by John Galsworthy
- Winifred "Winnie" FosterGirl
character in "Tuck Everlasting"
- Winifred FowlGirl
character on "Jimmy Neutron"
- Winnifred JamesGirl
character in St Clare series by Enid Blyton
- Winifred MadgersGirl
in "Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings and Legacy" by Charles Dickens
- Winifred "Winnie" PerryGirl
character in "The Winnie Years" by Lauren Myracle
- Winifred SandersonGirl
character in "Hocus Pocus"
- Winifred WoodGirl
in "Jack Sheppard" by William Harrison Ainsworth
- Winifred PortleyGirl
Rind "Winnie" in the film 'The Boxtrolls'
- Winifred JamesGirl
head,girl in the "St Clare" book series by Enid Blyton
- Sister WinifredGirl
character on the TV series "Call the Midwife"
- Winifred "Freddie" BrooksGirl
character on the TV series "A Different World"
- Winifred "Freddie" PinkGirl
character on the TV series "Murdoch Mysteries"
- St Winefride's WellGirl
possibly the oldest continually active pilgrimage site in all of Britain
Variations & nicknames
- FredaGirl
- FreddieGirl
- FreddyGirl
- FrediGirl
- FredyGirl
- WenfredaGirl
- WennafredGirl
- WinGirl
- WinaGirl
- WinafredGirl
- WinefredGirl
- WinefrideGirl
- WinefriedGirl
- WinfredGirl
- WinfredaGirl
- WinfriedaGirl
- WiniefridaGirl
- WinifredaGirl
- WinifridGirl
- WinifridaGirl
- WinifrydGirl
- WinnafredGirl
- WinneGirl
- WinnefredGirl
- WinnieGirl
- WinniefredGirl
- WinnifredGirl
- WinnifridGirl
- WynafredGirl
- WynetteGirl
- WynifredGirl
- WynnGirl
- WynneGirl
- WynnifredGirl