Winifred is a distinctive choice, ranked #364 in 2025. Your child is likely to be the only Winifred in their class.
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UK Rank 2025
#364
US Rank #923
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About the Name Winifred
Winifred is climbing rapidly up the charts, having climbed 98 places in just five years. Its best recorded rank was #374 in 2022 — and current momentum suggests it could challenge that mark again. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Winifred is fairly common in the UK, so your child is very likely to be the only Winifred in their class.
In the US it sits at #967 — notably more popular in the UK than across the Atlantic.
⭐ Famous People Named Winifred
Winifred Addy — Winfred Addy is a Ghanaian table tennis player.
Winifred Wagner — Winifred Marjorie Wagner was the English-born wife of Siegfried Wagner, the son of Richard Wagner.
Winifred Fortescue — Winifred Fortescue was a British writer and actress.
Biographical summaries are shortened from Wikipedia and are used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; those summaries remain available under that same licence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Winifred
Unlikely. With around 118 UK babies named Winifred per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Winifred in their class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Winifred is at its highest recorded position — #364 in 2025, with 118 births. In 2020 it ranked #486.
Winifred is more popular in the UK (#388) than in the US (#967). Names with strong rankings in both countries tend to have broad cross-cultural appeal, working well for international families or those with ties to both nations.
Notable people named Winifred include: Winifred Addy, Winifred Robinson and Winifred Akpani. Short summaries for each appear below.
Winifred does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Winifreds in the wild.
118
UK babies named Winifred (2025)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.1
In a school of 600
↑ 122 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Winifred
Almost certainly the only Winifred in the class
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UK Popularity (1996–2025)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
US Popularity (2023–2023)
Rank · SSA official data
✨ Similar names to Winifred
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Una Winifred Atwell was a pianist and composer born in the country of Trinidad who migrated to Britain and who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and Australia from the 1950s with a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records.