as a Last Name
- 3,844
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Winton
Meaning & Origins
Scottish and English: habitational name from any of various places called Winton. Those near Edinburgh and in North Yorkshire are named from the Old English byname or personal name Wine (meaning ‘friend’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; one in former Westmorland (now Cumbria) probably has as its first element an Old English winn ‘pasture’; and one in Lancashire has Old English wiðigen ‘growing with willows’.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 3,844
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Tennessee
- has the most people named Winton per capita
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