Winston

maleStatistical record

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

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

2registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
57years from first to last
#291highest recorded position

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2025

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1458
1997	#1578
1998	#2419
1999	#2425
2000	#1096
2001	#1949
2002	#1322
2003	#3467
2004	#1878
2005	#2754
2006	#2087
2007	#1578
2008	#1242
2009	#1175
2010	#996
2011	#1124
2012	#998
2013	#882
2014	#710
2015	#633
2016	#681
2017	#684
2018	#646
2019	#616
2020	#668
2021	#854
2022	#901
2023	#779
2024	#747
2025	#934

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 4 of the 46 years from 1969 to 2014.

In 2014: #609 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #710 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1969–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1969
First recorded at #291 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1969 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1969–2014
Highest recorded position: #291 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1969 (recorded 1969–2014).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #934 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Winston appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 30 ranked years and 800 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1969.

Winston across 2 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.

Winston'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
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#291 (1969)	#291 (1969)	#609 (2014)	4 of 46	13 (1969–2014)	4 (2014)
England and Wales · Boys	#1458 (1996)	#616 (2019)	#934 (2025)	30 of 30	800 (1996–2025)	59 (2019)

Winston by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Winston in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	23	4 of 10	6
2000s	107	10 of 10	11
2010sbusiest	428	10 of 10	43
2020s	242	6 of 10	40

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 43 births a year.

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1969 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #291 in Republic of Ireland in 1969.

Winston'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
2025	England and Wales	male	#934	33	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#747	46	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#779	42	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#901	34	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#854	36	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#668	51	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#616	59	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#646	54	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#684	51	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#681	51	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#633	55	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#710	46	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#882	33	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#998	28	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1124	23	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#996	28	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1175	21	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1242	19	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1578	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2087	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1878	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1322	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1096	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1458	8	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#609	4	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#316	3	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	male	#304	3	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	male	#291	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

Where Winston is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Winston, between 1969 and 2025, in 33 of those 57 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1969–2014	4	#291 in 1969
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#616 in 2019

Its high point came 50 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1969) than in England and Wales (2019).

No registrar recorded it for 19 years after 1976; it appears again in 1996.

Winston was ranked #291 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1969. 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.

Adrain#291
Alistair#291
Anton#291
Arnold#291

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 2 regions, from 1969 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #291 in Republic of Ireland in 1969. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Winston

Winston at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Winston across 2 official records

Winston by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

Where Winston is officially recorded

Names published alongside Winston

Winston at a glance

Winston across 2 official records

Winston by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Names published alongside Winston