Windsor
Windsor is the 4,639th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,413 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 40,300.
By the numbers
- People
- 7,413
- Rank
- 4,639th
- How common
- 1 in 40,300
- Per 100,000
- 2.5
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
from Old English Windlesōra (“Windsor”), from *windel ("reel, winch"; > Middle English windel) + ōra (“bank, shore”). See windlass.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Windsor described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Windsor
- Barbara Windsor (1937–2020)English actress and singer
- Marie Windsor (1919–2000)American actress
- Edith Windsor (1929–2017)American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM
- Claire Windsor (1892–1972)American actress
- Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster (born 1974)only son of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
- George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews (born 1962)elder son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Katharine, Duchess of Kent
- Lady Gabriella Windsor (born 1981)noblewoman; English freelance writer (born 1981); daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent
- Lady Davina Windsor (born 1977)noblewoman; elder daughter of Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
People named Windsor with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Windsor
Also a first name
Windsor has been given to 1,040 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.
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.