Winifred

Welsh

"blessed peacemaking"

Winifred Origin and Meaning

The name Winifred is a girl's name of Welsh origin meaning "blessed peacemaking".

One of the few remaining unrestored vintage gems, with a choice of two winning nicknames--the girlish Winnie and the tomboyish Freddie. Winifred, the name of a legendary Welsh saint, was a Top 200 name into the mid-1920's.

Winifred was one of the Forsytes in The Forsyte Saga, Winifred Foster was the heroine of Tuck Everlasting, and another appeared in Joss Wheden's Angel; in Once Upon a Mattress, Princess Winnifred (two n's) sings the song 'A Girl Named Fred'. The Disney folks seem to have been fond of the name--they used it in Jungle Book, Mary Poppins and Hocus Pocus.

Actress Jacqueline Bisset was born a Winifred and notable Winnies include Mrs. Mandela and the young girlfriend on The Wonder Years.

Formerly considered old and fusty, Winifred is back in, featured amongst the newest additions to the US Top 1000 in 2023.

Winifred Rank in US Top 1000

# 967 in the US

Winifred Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 193 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Winifred

• 967 US 2023
• 193 Nameberry 2025
• 93 Unique 2022
• 927 Future 2028
• 399 England 2023

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Famous People Named Winifred

• (Una) Winifred Atwell Trinidadian pianist
• Winifred May Birkin birth name of English socialite Freda Dudley Ward
• Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils American journalist
• Winifred "Winnie" Carney Irish independence activist and suffragist
• Winifred Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, British philanthropist
• Winifred Rockefeller Emeny American socialite, granddaughter of mogul William Rockefeller
• Maud Isabel "Winifred" Emery English stage actress
• Winifred Greenwood American silent film actress
• Winifred Florence Shotter English actress
• Winifred Margaret Slocock McNair English tennis player
• Winifred Holtby English novelist
• Winifred Lewellin James Australian writer
• Winifred Lamb British classical archaeologist
• Winifred Milius Lubell American illustrator and writer
• Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale, English Catholic noblewoman
• Winifred Phillips American video game composer
• Winifred Robinson English radio presenter
• (Margaret) Winifred Rushforth Scottish psychoanalyst
• Winifred Sackville Stoner aka Mother Stoner founder of the Natural Education movement
• Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr., American poet
• Winifred Coombe Tennant Welsh politician and spiritualist medium
• Winifred Marjorie Williams Wagner wife of composer Siegfried Wagner; daughter,in,law of Richard Wagner
• Winifred Eileen Watson English novelist
• Winifred Elaine "Wynne" Gibson American actress
• Winifred Wells mistress to King Charles II of England
• Winifred Westover American actress
• Winifred Horan American fiddler of groups Cherish the Ladies and Solas

The name Winifred in Pop Culture

• Winifred "Winnie" Rose character on the TV series "Anne with an E"
• Dora Winifred "D.W." Read character in "Arthur" series by Marc Brown
• Lady Winifred character in "Lady Connie" by Mrs Humphry Ward
• Princess Winifred character in "Once Upon a Mattress"
• Winifred Banks character in "Mary Poppins"
• Winifred "Fred" Burkle character on "Angel"
• Winifred Dartie character in "Forsyte" saga by John Galsworthy
• Winifred "Winnie" Foster character in "Tuck Everlasting"
• Winifred Fowl character on "Jimmy Neutron"
• Winnifred James character in St Clare series by Enid Blyton
• Winifred Madgers in "Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings and Legacy" by Charles Dickens
• Winifred "Winnie" Perry character in "The Winnie Years" by Lauren Myracle
• Winifred Sanderson character in "Hocus Pocus"
• Winifred Wood in "Jack Sheppard" by William Harrison Ainsworth
• Winifred Portley Rind "Winnie" in the film 'The Boxtrolls'
• Winifred James head,girl in the "St Clare" book series by Enid Blyton
• Sister Winifred character on the TV series "Call the Midwife"
• Winifred "Freddie" Brooks character on the TV series "A Different World"
• Winifred "Freddie" Pink character on the TV series "Murdoch Mysteries"
• St Winefride's Well possibly the oldest continually active pilgrimage site in all of Britain