Winter

30,758 people in the United States were counted with the surname Winter in the 2020 census, making it the 1,119th most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,718.

By the numbers

People: 30,758
Rank: 1,119th
How common: 1 in 9,718
Per 100,000: 10.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Germanic languages

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Winter

Greg Winter (born 1951)British biochemist
Ariel Winter (born 1998)American actress
Aron Winter (born 1967)Dutch association football player and manager
Johnny Winter (1944–2014)American blues guitarist and singer
Eric Winter (born 1976)American actor
Koni De Winter (born 2002)Belgian association football player
Nick Winter (1894–1955)Australian triple jumper
Terence Winter (born 1960)American television and film writer

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

Surnames like Winter

Also a first name

Winter has been given to 16,656 American babies as a first name since 1954, peaking in 2022. 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.