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Winthrop

in the US

There are 734 people with the last name "Winthrop" in the United States.

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Winthrop 27,756
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  1. is 27,752nd most common Schriever
  2. is 27,753rd most common Soller
  3. is 27,754th most common Wiersema
  4. is 27,755th most common Willmann
  5. is 27,756th most common Winthrop
  6. is 27,757th most common Wrede
  7. is 27,758th most common Zeoli
  8. is 27,759th most common Zobrist
  9. is 27,760th most common Akram

Most Common First Names for Winthrop

Robert, John, David, Elizabeth, Susan, Grant, Barbara, Michael, Thomas, James

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Meaning & History

English: habitational name from places in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire called Winthorpe. The former is named with the Old English personal name or byname Wine, meaning ‘friend’, + Old Norse þorp ‘settlement’. In the latter the first element is a contracted form of the Old English personal name Wigmund, composed of the elements wīg ‘war’ + mund ‘protection’, or the Old Norse equivalent, Vígmundr.

FOREBEARS John Winthrop (1588–1649) was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He kept a detailed journal, an invaluable source for historians. He was born into a family of Suffolk, England, gentry whose fortunes were founded by his grandfather Adam Winthrop (d. 1562) of Lavenham. In 1544 the latter acquired a 500-acre estate that had been part of the monastery of Bury St. Edmunds. John Winthrop emigrated from Groton, Suffolk, England, to Salem, MA, in 1630 because of Charles I's anti-Puritan policies. By the time of his death he had had four wives and 16 children, the most notable of whom was his son John (1606–76), a scientist and governor of CT. His descendants were prominent in politics and science, including John Winthrop (1714–79), an astronomer, and Robert Winthrop (1809–94), a senator and speaker of the House of Representatives.

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