Meaning and history
From an English surname, which may come from the Old English given name Wynnstan or from place names meaning “town belonging to Wine,” this name is best known through Winston Churchill (1874–1965), the British prime minister during World War II, and through the fictional Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s 1949 novel 1984.
20062006: 225 births, rank #877
2007: 239 births, rank #868
2008: 270 births, rank #812
2009: 270 births, rank #816
2010: 238 births, rank #878
20112011: 305 births, rank #744
2012: 399 births, rank #614
2013: 394 births, rank #623
2014: 518 births, rank #537
2015: 551 births, rank #523
20162016: 649 births, rank #471
2017: 782 births, rank #405
2018: 790 births, rank #404
2019: 860 births, rank #371
2020: 726 births, rank #408
20212021: 762 births, rank #408
2022: 761 births, rank #420
2023: 798 births, rank #397
2024: 799 births, rank #404
20252025: 830 births, rank #381
Winston rose from #405 to #382 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2019, with 860 births.