Winchester

At the 2020 census, 10,281 Americans bore the surname Winchester — 3,401st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 29,100.

By the numbers

People: 10,281
Rank: 3,401st
How common: 1 in 29,100
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Middle English Wynchester, Winchestre, from Old English Wintanċeaster, from Latin Venta Belgārum, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Celtic *wentā (“town, place”), Proto-Indo-European *h₁wen- (“place (?)”) + Old English ċeaster, from Latin castra (“camp”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Winchester described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 75.2%
Black, not Hispanic 15.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Winchester

Philip Winchester (born 1981)American stage actor, television actor and film actor
Oliver Winchester (1810–1880)American businessman and politician
Sarah Winchester (1839–1922)American heiress and occultist
Jesse Winchester (1944–2014)American-Canadian singer-songwriter, producer
Jacarra Winchester (born 1992)American wrestler
Simon Winchester (born 1944)British journalist and popular historian

People named Winchester with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Winchester

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.