Wynn

28,437 people in the United States were counted with the surname Wynn in the 2020 census, making it the 1,215th most common in the country. That is about one person in 10,500.

By the numbers

People: 28,437
Rank: 1,215th
How common: 1 in 10,500
Per 100,000: 9.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Welsh

From the Welsh surname, from the name Gwyn. Also spelled as Wynne.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 52.2%
Black, not Hispanic 38.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Wynn

Ed Wynn (1886–1966)American actor
Keenan Wynn (1916–1986)American actor
Natalie Wynn (born 1988)American YouTuber
Steve Wynn (born 1942)American businessman
Tyla Wynn (born 1982)American pornographic actress
Jessica Keenan Wynn (born 1986)American actress and singer
Albert Wynn (born 1951)American politician

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

Surnames like Wynn

Wynne

Also a first name

Wynn has been given to 4,117 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

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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.