Wind

At the 2020 census, 2,513 Americans bore the surname Wind — 11,910th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 119,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,513
Rank: 11,910th
How common: 1 in 119,000
Per 100,000: 0.84

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from wind (both senses). This surname also appears in Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and German with the same senses, such as Wint. Compare De Wind.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 11.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Wind

Jonas Wind (born 1999)Danish association football player
Hans Wind (1919–1995)Finnish-Swedish flying ace
Henning Wind (1937–2025)Danish yacht racer
Edgar Wind (1900–1971)German-born British interdisciplinary art historian
Nymphia Wind (born 1995)Taiwanese drag performer and dressmaker

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

Surnames like Wind

Try it on yourself

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.