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Winthrop

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Winthrop is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 895th, in 1911.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
191548 births
Best rank
#895in 1911
Since 1883
1,178people given the name
Babies named Winthrop, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,178 boys have been named Winthrop in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 48 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 48 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1910s alone account for 18%. It has spent 4 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 Winthrop
1880s10
1890s6
1900s29
1910s216
1920s213
1930s148
1940s171
1950s163
1960s112
1970s46
1980s23
1990s13
2010s22
2020s6

In 1915, its biggest year

Winthrop was the 904th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.

Names that rose and fell with Winthrop

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.