Entry № 11544 · English origin

Winnie Winnie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WIN-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Holy peace (Winnie Mandela + Winnie Cooper + Winnie the Pooh)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "holy peace (winnie mandela + winnie cooper + winnie the pooh)".

Winnie is the English diminutive of Winifred — from the Old Welsh Gwenfrewi ("holy peace, blessed"). Winnie-the-Pooh — A. A. Saint Winifred — Welsh medieval saint.

Holy peace (Winnie Mandela + Winnie Cooper + Winnie the Pooh) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Winnie
Transliteration
Winnie
Pronunciation
/ ˈwɪn.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Winnie stands.

Winnie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Winnies before her.

Real people
Winnie Mandela
South African anti-apartheid activist.
1936 – 2018
Winnie Harlow
Canadian model.
born 1994
In fiction
Winnie Cooper
The Wonder Years.
1988
Winnie-the-Pooh
A. A. Milne's classic.
1926

Names connected to Winnie.

The number behind Winnie.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Winnie reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.