Girl · Welsh, influenced by Old English
Winifred
Say it: WIN-ih-fred
Meaning
Anglicized form of Welsh Gwenfrewi, influenced by Old English Wynfrith 'joy-peace'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A Welsh saint's name popular in late Victorian England.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1890s
In the United States
- 44,936 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1891, about 1 in 789 girls
- 222 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Winefride, Wenefrede
| Welsh | Gwenfrewi |
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Famous bearers
- Saint Winifred of Holywell
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Parish baptism registers
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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