Winta
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 3 babies a year in England and Wales.
Winta by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Winta. In the US, 5 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 7 babies in 1995, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Winta
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Winta. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Winterthe cold season; modern seasonal name741 in the US (2017)
- Willaresolute protector; a form of Wilhelmina691 in the US (2017)
- Winonafirstborn daughter24 in England and Wales (2025)
- Wilmaresolute protector; a form of Wilhelmina12 in England and Wales (2025)
- Wandawanderer or of the Vandals7 in England and Wales (2025)
- Wintonsettlement by a pasture or meadow8 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Winta
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