Winnie (name)

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