Boy · Old English
Winston
Say it: WIN-stun
Meaning
From an English place name, Old English Wynstan's tūn 'Wynstan's settlement'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Widely given in Jamaica and the English-speaking Caribbean in the mid-20th century, after Winston Churchill.
Its wave through time
Rising now
In the United States
- 28,955 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 2019, about 1 in 2,100 boys
- 732 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.