Winnifred is the Old English/Welsh form Winifred — from the Welsh Gwenfrewi (blessed reconciliation). A vintage revival name. Saint Winifred of Wales (7th century) — Welsh virgin-martyr; according to legend, her uncle Saint Beuno restored her to life after she was beheaded by Prince Caradoc; her holy well at Holywell, Flintshire (Wales) remains one of the most-visited Christian pilgrimage sites in Britain — the only place in the British Isles where Catholic pilgrimage has been continuous since the 7th century. Winnifred "Winnie" Sanderson — eldest of the witch sisters in Disney's Hocus Pocus (1993) and Hocus Pocus 2 (2022), played by Bette Midler; the original film became one of the most-watched Halloween films in modern American TV broadcasts; the 2022 sequel was Disney+'s most-watched film premiere ever in its opening weekend. Winnie-the-Pooh — A.A. Milne's character (1926); named for Winnipeg the bear.
Winnifred 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Winnifred reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.