Winston

20,691 people in the United States were counted with the surname Winston in the 2020 census, making it the 1,697th most common in the country. That is about one person in 14,400.

By the numbers

People: 20,691
Rank: 1,697th
How common: 1 in 14,400
Per 100,000: 6.9

Where the name comes from

From Old English personal name Wine, in the genitive singular case Wines + tūn (“farm, village”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 59.7%
White, not Hispanic 29.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Winston

Stan Winston (1946–2008)American special effects artist
George Winston (1949–2023)American pianist and recording artist
Harry Winston (1896–1978)American jeweller
Matt Winston (born 1970)American actor
Jameis Winston (born 1994)American football player
Robert Winston (born 1940)British scientist

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

Surnames like Winston

Also a first name

Winston has been given to 32,956 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2019. 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.