Winona
loc · Latin script
Meaning: From Dakota winona ‘first-born daughter’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Winona is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- MOMacao
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 292 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Dakota winona ‘first-born daughter’.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Winona counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4.8K | Winona | 292 |
| CA Canada | — | 3 | Winona | 64 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | listed | Winona | 54 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Winona | 7 |
| MO Macao | — | — | Winona | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 80 | — | 12 |
| SE Sweden | — | 32 | — | 5 |
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Winona is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name from Dakota, used mainly in the United States.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, city, MN; pers. name (W. Ryder)
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Origine amérindienne (peau-rouge), "fille aînée".
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Native American: firstborn daughter.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, [wai'nouna]: in den i99oer-Jahren entlehnter weibl. Vom. india
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Winona Branch Sawyerb. 1847USAmerican writer
- Winona Evans Reevesb. 1871USAmerican writer and editor
- Winona Winterb. 1889USactor
- Winona Hazel Welchb. 1896USU.S. botanist, bryologist, professor (1896-1990)
- Grace MacInnisb. 1905CAnot in their usual nameCanadian politician (1905–1991)
- Winona Beamerb. 1923USnative Hawaiian performer and teacher of the hula, storytelling, and music, and a proponent of Hawaiian culture
- Vivian Pinnb. 1941USnot in their usual nameAmerican physician-scientist and pathologist
- Winona LaDukeb. 1959USauthor and activist
- Winona Littleheartb. 1961USAmerican professional wrestler
- Winona Ryderb. 1971USAmerican actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 22 countries.
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 does the name Winona mean, and where does it come from?
- From Dakota winona ‘first-born daughter’. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Winona have the most bearers?
- Winona is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled winona.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/winonaThe 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, “Winona”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.