The name Winter comes from the English word for the season, that is the same word in Old English. The origin of the word ‘winter’ is unclear.
Winter is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Winter 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 girls names, Winter ranks 402. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 5 were named Winter. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Winter.
The name Winter comes from the English word for the season, that is the same word in Old English. The origin of the word ‘winter’ is unclear.
Did you know... that the astronomical season of winter lasts from 22 December to 21 March?
Winter is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Winter cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #265 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Winter, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Winter seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Winter was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The W is really rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 0.8% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a W. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Winter is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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 if 0.8% of all girls' names start with a W, all other letters occur on average five times as often as the W. Nevertheless, individual girls' names with W are quite popular, the most common currently being Wanda.
If your name is Winter 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Winter, you can simply say:
Windmill
Igloo
Nut
Tiger
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Winter
Winter
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
I
N
T
E
R
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
T
E
R
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. Winter sounds like this:
