Winter

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Winter: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Winter: Recorded since 2000, its highest recorded position is #263, and it stood at #333 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
44times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#263highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3912
2005	#3382
2007	#5201
2008	#2487
2009	#2019
2010	#2392
2011	#1665
2012	#1253
2013	#1018
2014	#814
2015	#674
2016	#837
2017	#453
2018	#298
2019	#310
2020	#278
2021	#266
2022	#263
2023	#297
2024	#392

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 20 of the 25 years from 2000 to 2024.

In 2024: #333 among girls in Scotland, #392 among girls in England and Wales, #631 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 2000–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2000
First recorded at #3912 among girls in England and Wales in 2000 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2000–2024
Highest recorded position: #263 among girls in England and Wales, in 2022 (recorded 2000–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #392 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Winter appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 20 years beginning in 2000, and has registered 1,458 births with the name.

Winter across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Winter's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3912 (2000)	#263 (2022)	#392 (2024)	20 of 25	1,458 (2000–2024)	178 (2021)
England and Wales · Boys	#4052 (2006)	#1492 (2020)	#1675 (2024)	15 of 19	137 (2006–2024)	16 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#873 (2017)	#517 (2021)	#631 (2024)	6 of 8	31 (2017–2024)	7 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#432 (2017)	#298 (2021)	#298 (2021)	2 of 5	8 (2017–2021)	5 (2021)

Winter by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Winter in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	32	5 of 10	6
2010s	649	10 of 10	65
2020sbusiest	777	5 of 10	155

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 155 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2017 and 2018, when recorded births rose by 61, from 97 to 158.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Winter appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #263 in England and Wales in 2022.

Winter's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#392	110	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1675	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#297	147	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2160	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#263	173	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1781	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#266	178	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1984	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#278	169	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1492	16	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#310	154	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1587	15	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#298	158	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2445	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#453	97	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#837	45	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1704	14	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#674	60	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3373	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#814	47	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1018	35	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1253	26	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2458	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1665	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2019	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2487	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#298	5	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#517	7	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#551	6	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#333	10	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 2000 and 2024, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #263, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 178 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2017, and 24 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Winona · #1036, 23y
Winston · #291, 32y
Winter-Rose · #1081, 13y
Wisam · #2857, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alaia · #262, 20y
Maddox · #264, 22y
Mia-Rose · #266, 26y
Reina · #266, 22y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Alaia · #262, 20y
Aronas · #264, 19y
Maddox · #264, 22y
Zayaan · #264, 23y

Winter was ranked #263 in England and Wales · Girls in 2022. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Winter and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Winter without appearing here.

Winter moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2160 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1675 and #5119.
Willow Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2445 and #2445 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1587 and #4702.
Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3373 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #1704 and #4810.
Debra Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3912 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2487 and #5545.

Moved ahead of Winter

Fiadh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #297 and #404 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #392 and #374.

Moved the opposite way to Winter

Abigail Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Winter went from #3912 to #392 while Abigail went from #19 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Winter went from #3912 to #392 while Aimee went from #72 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Winter went from #3912 to #392 while Aisling went from #443 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Winter went from #3912 to #392 while Alex went from #186 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Winter

Ada Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Winter went from #3912 to #392 and Ada from #1831 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Winter went from #3912 to #392 and Alma from #2416 to #234.
Amalie Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Winter went from #3912 to #392 and Amalie from #3912 to #1128.
Amelia Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Winter went from #3912 to #392 and Amelia from #35 to #2.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #263 in England and Wales in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Winter

Winter at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Winter across 4 official records

Winter by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Winter at a glance

Winter across 4 official records

Winter by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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Winter moved ahead of

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