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Winona
Pronounced /wɪˈnoʊnə/
Rank in 2024
#737
Born in 2024
381
Peak year
2024 · #737
Origin
Dakota
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 381 girls were named Winona, about 1 in every 4,234.
- 2024 is its biggest year on record.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 12,481 girls have been named Winona since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Winona per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 3,893 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Silent: 2,973 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,876 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen X: 828 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 474 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 343 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,762 babies, 0.09 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Dakota winúŋna (“firstborn daughter”). While not originally used as a personal name by the Dakota, it has been adopted as such by English speakers. John Koontz suggested that the name was a compound of wi- (“female”) + no (“first”) + -na (a diminutive suffix) and thus a reflex of Proto-Siouan *rǫ/*nǫ (“one”). That root is otherwise unattested in the Sioux languages, which use reflexes of *wį(y)ą (“one”) instead, and a more prosaic analysis identifies the first elements of the name with winyan (“woman”).
- A female given name from Dakota, used mainly in the United States.
- Origin
- Dakota
- Say it
- /wɪˈnoʊnə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Winona, CC BY-SA 4.0.