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Winifred

Winifred is a girl's name meaning "Welsh gwenfrewi", drawing on Welsh roots. It had its heyday in the 1920s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. 1918 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.

WelshWelsh "gwenfrewi"
EtymologyMeaning "blessed reconciliation" or "fair peace"
Births by decade
1900s
2,717
1910s
10,460
1920s
12,400
1930s
5,490
1940s
3,857
1950s
2,619
1960s
1,323
1970s
483
1980s
218
1990s
191
2000s
255
2010s
746
Peaked in the 1920s · 40,759 total U.S. births since 1900