Winfield
Winfield is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 122nd, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1916125 births
- Best rank
- #122in 1880
- Since 1880
- 5,206people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,206 boys have been named Winfield in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 125 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 125 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 72 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Winfield | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 430 | |
| 1890s | 234 | |
| 1900s | 199 | |
| 1910s | 860 | |
| 1920s | 948 | |
| 1930s | 625 | |
| 1940s | 571 | |
| 1950s | 422 | |
| 1960s | 295 | |
| 1970s | 181 | |
| 1980s | 145 | |
| 1990s | 120 | |
| 2000s | 73 | |
| 2010s | 72 | |
| 2020s | 31 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Winfield was the 506th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Winfield
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Garfieldpeak 1881
- Bertpeak 1918
- Hirampeak 1920
- Isompeak 1920
- Lemuelpeak 1921
- Simpeak 1918
- Gustavpeak 1917
- Perleypeak 1915
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.