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Girl's name · #426 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave
93% girls · 7% boys — Winter is also given to boys: 77 in 2025, about 1 in 14 in recent years. Winter →
Winter is near its high-water mark: it reached #305 in 2022 and still ranked #426 in 2025. About 16,000 girls have carried it since 1954.
Winter’s use for girls increased sharply in 1978, when the daytime drama The Edge of Night introduced a character named Winter.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 44 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#356 in New Zealand (2025) · #364 in England & Wales (2025) · #538 in Canada (2025) · #539 in Scotland (2025) · #631 in Ireland (2024) · #2,300 in Sweden (2023) · #11,538 in Ecuador (2023) · #298 in N. Ireland (2021).
Among 25 notable people named Winter:
Entertainers appear 2.84× more often than among typical names — e.g. Winter, South Korean singer (born 2001).
Together with its spelling variant Wynter (#457), Winter would rank around #218 with about 1,400 births last year — the newborns split about 52/48 between Winter and Wynter.
Similar names: Wynter · Charlee · Wynonna · Gracelynn · Carter · Hunter
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