How popular is “Winter” in the USA?

Number of people named “Winter” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Winter” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Winter” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Winter” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Winter” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Winter” by birth year

This chart shows how “Winter” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1954	5	0.000001256	5		100%
1961	6	0.000001448	6		100%
1963	5	0.000001263	5		100%
1964	5	0.000001286	5		100%
1967	7	0.000002062	7		100%
1969	5	0.000001439	5		100%
1970	6	0.000001664	6		100%
1972	7	0.000002227	7		100%
1973	9	0.000002983	9		100%
1974	17	0.000005592	9	8	6%
1975	8	0.00000265	8		100%
1976	21	0.000006921	21		100%
1977	34	0.000010704	29	5	71%
1978	144	0.00004537	137	7	90%
1979	250	0.000075143	241	9	93%
1980	147	0.000042677	140	7	90%
1981	116	0.000033532	109	7	88%
1982	101	0.000028792	101		100%
1983	100	0.000028874	92	8	84%
1984	84	0.000024077	78	6	86%
1985	57	0.00001597	52	5	82%
1986	71	0.00001996	65	6	83%
1987	73	0.000020246	73		100%
1988	60	0.000016238	60		100%
1989	71	0.000018468	71		100%
1990	76	0.000019228	76		100%
1991	78	0.000020024	73	5	87%
1992	85	0.000022128	79	6	86%
1993	97	0.000025728	89	8	84%
1994	133	0.000035775	122	11	83%
1995	149	0.000040686	135	14	81%
1996	185	0.000050724	173	12	87%
1997	190	0.000052403	177	13	86%
1998	204	0.000055462	189	15	85%
1999	183	0.000049542	169	14	85%
2000	188	0.000049737	173	15	84%
2001	227	0.00006064	206	21	81%
2002	229	0.000061258	205	24	79%
2003	200	0.000052599	182	18	82%
2004	217	0.000056793	205	12	89%
2005	213	0.000055399	190	23	78%
2006	218	0.000055104	206	12	89%
2007	192	0.000048028	178	14	85%
2008	253	0.000064366	238	15	88%
2009	276	0.000072248	261	15	89%
2010	232	0.000062775	220	12	90%
2011	253	0.000069167	240	13	90%
2012	392	0.000107181	358	34	83%
2013	451	0.000123708	432	19	92%
2014	595	0.000160534	560	35	88%
2015	601	0.000162392	568	33	89%
2016	667	0.000181808	621	46	86%
2017	751	0.00021	709	42	89%
2018	835	0.000237493	799	36	91%
2019	1033	0.000297614	983	50	90%
2020	1060	0.00031731	1009	51	90%
2021	1082	0.000319367	1011	71	87%
2022	1116	0.000329872	1051	65	88%
2023	886	0.000267577	830	56	87%
2024	876	0.000263182	816	60	86%

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