Wynona

Girls' name · Mid-century revival

Living in the US: ~1,800 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #2,778 among girls
Births in 2025: 61 3,836 since 1880
Typical age: 63 years, median

Wynona popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1899–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

Wynona was used most in 1930, when 97 babies were given the name. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1899. It reaches the top 1,000 in 26 years of the record.

The 2025 position is #2,778, on 61 births. Compared with 2015, births are up 5.1×. Year on year the rank dropped by 193.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Wynona?

Roughly 1,800 Wynonas are alive in the US right now. SSA has recorded 3,836 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Wynona?

Half of living Wynonas are older than 63, half younger. Most living bearers were born in the 1950s. By the site’s era rules that makes Wynona a mid-century revival name.

Your Wynona

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

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Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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