Winton

Winton is the 8,791st most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,579 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 83,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,579
Rank: 8,791st
How common: 1 in 83,500
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From either the Old English personal name Wine, which is a byname from wine (“friend”), or winn (“pasture”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.7%
Black, not Hispanic 14.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Winton

Nicholas Winton (1909–2015)British stockbroker who saved 669 Jewish children during 1938–39
Tim Winton (born 1960)Australian novelist, short story writer, children's writer and screenwriter
Jane Winton (1905–1959)American actress
Alexander Winton (1860–1932)British automotive pioneer

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

Surnames like Winton

Also a first name

Winton has been given to 1,945 American babies as a first name since 1892, peaking in 1920. 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.