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Winfield

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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
Babies named Winfield, by year of birthboys
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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

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Winfield
1880s430
1890s234
1900s199
1910s860
1920s948
1930s625
1940s571
1950s422
1960s295
1970s181
1980s145
1990s120
2000s73
2010s72
2020s31

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.

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.