Winter
Pronounced W IH1 N T ER0 (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 2022
- 71 years in use
- 1 spelling
How popular is Winter?
Winter is a girls' name, and first appears in 1954. It has been given to 26,110 children — the 814th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: about three times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2022, when 1,937 children were given it.
Wynter is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Winter and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Wynter
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- W IH1 N T ER0
- Stress pattern:
- 10
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Winter
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Winter
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Winter?
- Winter ranks 814th among girls' names in US records, with 26,110 births since 1954. Over the past decade it accounts for 15,128.
- Is Winter a unisex name?
- No. Winter is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Winter most popular?
- 2022, when 1,937 children were given the name. It has been in use for 71 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Winter spelled?
- Wynter. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.