Winnie (name)
| Pronunciation | \win-ny\ |
|---|---|
| Gender | Unisex |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Welsh (Wales) |
| Meaning | fair one white and smooth soft happiness fair and pure |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Winne |
Winnie or Winny (\win-ny\) is a male and female given name of Welsh origin, a short form (hypocorism) of Edwina, Winifred or Winnifred, Gwendolyn, Guinevere (Welsh), Gwyneth (Welsh), and Wynne (Welsh). The name's meaning is fair one; white and smooth; soft; happiness; or fair and pure. The popularity of the name Winnie steadily declined among American women in the 20th century, but in the 1990 US Census, still ranked 699th of 4276.[1]
It is also a male name from Cambodia (meaning bright),[2] or a short form of Winston, the best known example being Winston Churchill. It can derive from many other names ending in -win such as Edwin, Darwin, etc. or simply be a nickname for the Welsh name Wyn meaning "Fair, white; blessed, holy".
People
- Varina Anne Davis (1864-1898), called Winnie, author and daughter of Confederate President Jefferson Davis
- Winnie Baze (1914−2006), American football player
- Winnie Ewing (born 1929), Scottish nationalist
- Winnie Haatrecht (born 1963), Dutch-Surinamese retired footballer and currently a player's agent
- Winnie Holzman (born 1954), American dramatist, screenwriter and poet
- Winny de Jong (born 1958), Dutch politician
- Winnie Ruth Judd (1905-1998), convicted double murderer
- Winnie Kiap, diplomat from Papua New Guinea
- Luamanuvao Winnie Laban (born 1955), New Zealand politician
- Winnie Leuszler (1926-2004), Canadian swimmer
- Winnie Lightner (1899-1971), American film actress
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936-2018), anti-apartheid activist, politician, and ex-wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela
- Winnie Shaw (1947-1992), Scottish tennis player
- Winnie Yu (born 1954), Cantonese radio director
Fictional characters
- Winnie-the-Pooh or Winnie the Pooh, an anthropomorphic fictional bear created by A. A. Milne
- Gwendolyn "Winnie" Cooper, a main character from the American television series The Wonder Years
- Winifred "Winnie" Foster, a main character from the American book and movie Tuck Everlasting
- Winnie Oh, a teacher in Degrassi
- Winnie Tibideaux, Sondra and Elvin's daughter on the American television series The Cosby Show
- the title character of Winnie Winkle, an American comic strip published from 1920 to 1996
- Winnie Woodpecker, the girlfriend of animated cartoon character Woody Woodpecker
- Winnie, a kid werewolf in the movies Hotel Transylvania and Hotel Transylvania 2
- Winnie Mann, Helena Peabody's former partner in Showtime's The L Word
- Winnie Lopez, police officer from St. Cloud in FX Fargo
References
See also
- Winnie (disambiguation)
- Wenno (Winne), the first Master of the Sword-Brothers
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