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The first name 
Winston

Winston is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Winston – popular and common in the US!

The name Winston isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Winston ranks 431. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 4 were named Winston. In the entire USA, approximately 24,684 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Winston. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Winston

What does the name 
Winston mean?

Winston comes from an English surname that was derived from the Old English given name Wynnstan. This name means ‘joyful stone’.

This classic and formal... sounding name was popular in the U.S. during the 1940s and since the 2010s.

Winston has 7 letters 
and begins with a W

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter W is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with a W, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, W is by no means the rarest initial. While J, A and D are the most common first letters of boys' names, X, U and Q are the least common initials of feminine first names.

With seven letters, the name Winston has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that since 1.5% of all boys’ names begin with a W, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. By the way, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a W, William is currently the most common.

Other names with 
W, i, n, s, t, o and n

If you take all the letters in the name Winston – W, i, n, s, t, o and n – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Swinton.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Winston

If your name is Winston and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Winston

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Winston, you can simply say:

Windmill

Igloo

Nut

Sun

Tiger

Orange

Nut

This is how the name Winston is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Winston in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Winston

Winston

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Winston

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Winston is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

W
I
N
S
T
O
N

Have you ever waved the name Winston

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

W
I
N
S
T
O
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Winston sounds like this: