as a Last Name
- 5,519
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Winder
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. occupational name for a winder of wool, from an agent derivative of Middle English winde(n) ‘to wind’ (Old English windan ‘to go’, ‘to proceed’). The verb was also used in the Middle Ages of various weaving and plaiting processes, so that in some cases the name may have referred to a basket or hurdle maker. 2. habitational name from any of the various minor places in northern England so called, from Old English vindr ‘wind’ + erg ‘hut’, ‘shelter’, i.e. a shelter against the wind.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 5,519
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Utah
- has the most people named Winder per capita
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