Winnifred
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/wɪnəfɹəd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Winnifred is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 92K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 179K
- GHGhana≈1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 228 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Winnifred, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Winnifred counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Winnifred | 26 |
| US United States | — | 1,854 | 1 in 179K | 1.8K | Winnifred | 228 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Winnifred | 16 |
| GH Ghana | #468 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Winnifred | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 92K | listed | Winnifred | 59 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 621 | 1 in 28K | 563 | Winnifred | 18 |
| JM Jamaica | #617 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Winnifred | 6 |
| GY Guyana | — | 13 | 1 in 58K | 13 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Winnifred Eatonb. 1875CACanadian writer author
- Winnifred Sprague Mason Huckb. 1882USAmerican politician
- Winifred J. Harleyb. 1895USnot in their usual namebotanist and botanical collector (1895-1979)
- Randi Hultinb. 1926NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian journalist (1926-2000)
- Winnifred Simb. 1930CACanadian choir director and music educator
- Winnie Sorgdragerb. 1948NLnot in their usual nameDutch politician
- Winnie D. Hallwachsb. 1954USnot in their usual nameU.S. entomologist and tropical ecologist
- Winnifred SelbyGHGhanaian social entrepreneur
- Winnifred JongCACanadian director, writer and producer
- Winnifred R. LouisCAresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.8K | #7,958 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 563 | #1,877 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 378 | #3,813 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 166 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 161 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 160 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 159 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 152 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1917 | 147 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 145 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1915 | 139 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 137 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Winnifred?
- In the etymology graph, Winifred, Winifreda and Winefride are forms of the same name in other languages; Freddie, Freda and Winnie are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Winnifred?
- A machine transcription gives /wɪnəfɹəd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Winnifred have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Winnifred in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled winnifred.
- Is Winnifred a male or female name?
- Winnifred is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- How common is the name Winnifred?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,854 people named Winnifred in 2020, about 1 in 179 thousand residents.
- How common is Winnifred compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Winnifred is the 468th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Winnifred?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/winnifredThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Winnifred” — the 468th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.