Winthrop
Winthrop is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 895th, in 1911.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191548 births
- Best rank
- #895in 1911
- Since 1883
- 1,178people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,178 boys have been named Winthrop in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 48 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 48 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1910s alone account for 18%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Winthrop | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | |
| 1890s | 6 | |
| 1900s | 29 | |
| 1910s | 216 | |
| 1920s | 213 | |
| 1930s | 148 | |
| 1940s | 171 | |
| 1950s | 163 | |
| 1960s | 112 | |
| 1970s | 46 | |
| 1980s | 23 | |
| 1990s | 13 | |
| 2010s | 22 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Winthrop was the 904th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Winthrop
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Foypeak 1921
- Pasqualepeak 1917
- Estillpeak 1919
- Odispeak 1921
- Vergilpeak 1920
- Burnettpeak 1920
- Elmopeak 1920
- Rudolfpeak 1927
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.