Wynne
Feminine · “white”
Wynne is given to both — 1,710 girls and 167 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Wynne is the Welsh gwyn — white, fair and blessed at once — and it is one of the most productive elements in the whole Welsh naming stock.
How old is the name Wynne?
Wynne first appears in US birth records in 1904 — 121 years ago. The typical Wynne alive today was born around 1975, making them about 50 years old. About 1,400 people named Wynne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Wynne most popular?
Wynne peaked in 1943, reaching #1791 nationally. Today it ranks #4352, 2,561 places below that high. See the whole 1943 chart.
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Where it comes from
From gwyn to Wynne
The story of Wynne
Gwyn opens and closes an enormous number of Welsh names — Gwyneth, Bronwen, Olwen, Gwenllian, Winifred — and its double sense of white and blessed is genuine rather than a coincidence: the sacred and the bright were the same idea in that vocabulary. A separate Old English wynn means joy and gives the rune of that name. Wynne is used for both sexes and appears in American records from the twentieth century.
Meaning
white, fair, blessed
From Welsh gwyn, white or blessed, with the feminine form gwen; the word covers physical whiteness and sacred blessedness together, which is why it closes so many Welsh names. The Old English wynn, joy, is a separate word.
How the name formed
- gwyn
- Wynne
Related forms: Gwyn · Gwen · Wynn
Pronouncing Wynne
WIN
One syllable. Welsh Gwyn gives GWIN, with the g sounded.
Nicknames for Wynne
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1904
- Most girls named
- 201947 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1791reached in 1943
- Change vs 2023
- +18.5%32 in 2025, from 27
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Wynne in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Gwyn in Welsh — same name
- Gwen in Welsh — related form
- Wynn in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Pennsylvania, New York.
Wynnes among us
people named Wynne are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 50,227 born in 2025 was named Wynne
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jeanett test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Wynne's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jeanett climbed just as high around 1903, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jeanett's path sketches the road Wynne is walking now.
Wynne sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Wynne is headed
Wynne should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Wynne beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Wynne in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Welsh meaning with a genuinely rich double sense.
- Five letters and one syllable, quick to write.
- It carries Welsh identity clearly, which is the point for the families who use it.
- It sounds identical to the English verb win.
- It is used for both sexes, so forms may guess wrong.
- Wynne, Wynn, Win and Winn are all in use and none is dominant.
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Feminine · #4352 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Wynnes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Wynne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Wynne in 2025?
- Wynne ranks #4352 among US girl names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Wynne?
- About 1 in every 50,227 US girls born in 2025 was named Wynne — 32 in all.
- Will my child share the name Wynne with classmates?
- Wynne will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Wynne
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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