Winston Boy Name

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The name Winston is of English origin, and means friend's town. The table below indicates the number of times the name Winston has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Winston**
Use of the Name Winston for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
21,319	10,390	5,572	2,248	1,081	406	211

The table below indicates the number of times the name Winston has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Winston first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1883, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Winston**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1883	887	6
1884
1885
1886	757	8
1887	917	6
1888
1889	877	7
1890	992	6
1891
1892	860	8
1893	834	8
1894	951	7
1895	977	7
1896	673	12
1897	680	11
1898	522	17
1899	785	9
1900	744	13
1901	635	12
1902	741	11
1903	655	13
1904	646	14
1905	524	20
1906	522	20
1907	537	21
1908	398	36
1909	426	35
1910	677	20
1911	505	35
1912	396	95
1913	450	92
1914	378	159
1915	382	198
1916	400	193
1917	396	205
1918	401	222
1919	406	207
1920	405	211
1921	345	292
1922	376	257
1923	412	213
1924	376	258
1925	399	225
1926	388	230
1927	385	237
1928	418	206
1929	415	201
1930	416	200
1931	425	178
1932	389	208
1933	399	182
1934	393	197
1935	421	175
1936	424	173
1937	409	192
1938	434	176
1939	427	178
1940	307	335
1941	236	539
1942	255	522
1943	260	542
1944	313	372
1945	366	266
1946	394	272
1947	414	273
1948	399	289
1949	420	264
1950	399	286
1951	428	252
1952	435	259
1953	435	266
1954	442	270
1955	435	283
1956	459	271
1957	488	255
1958	551	197
1959	558	193
1960	566	192
1961	553	205
1962	591	175
1963	552	207
1964	562	199
1965	501	233
1966	528	207
1967	546	185
1968	594	164
1969	573	188
1970	611	178
1971	565	207
1972	615	164
1973	631	158
1974	681	144
1975	642	161
1976	673	150
1977	628	180
1978	644	170
1979	695	152
1980	657	174
1981	636	179
1982	658	175
1983	695	152
1984	625	186
1985	592	221
1986	646	190
1987	608	222
1988	631	226
1989	624	253
1990	596	281
1991	596	291
1992	621	278
1993	649	253
1994	665	243
1995	681	241
1996	666	248
1997	738	206
1998	761	209
1999	658	263
2000	710	247
2001	798	210
2002	788	218
2003	873	195
2004	832	211
Totals:		21,319		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Winston as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Winston appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 118 times during the last 125 years.

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