Last Name WINDLE

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Meaning	Local: Of Windhill, a hamlet in the township of Idle, county York. The tendency of the suffix 'hill' is to become '-le.' Also 'of Windle,' a township in the parish of Prescot, county Lancashire.

Origin	English, Irish

Rank	9,892 (2000 US census)	8,516 (1990 US census)

Count	3,010 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

94.09%, or 2832 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
1.89%, or 57 total occurrences, as black,
0.47%, or 14 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.73%, or 22 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.5%, or 45 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.33%, or 40 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

English surnames

English surnames can be divided into five classes: Baptisimal or Personal (first) names, local, official, and occupative surnames. Nicknames represent the last class. Practically there are only four classes, for it is often hard ti distinguish between occupation and offic...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...