Last Name WINTER

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Meaning The son of Winter. The ecclesiastical seasons all made their mark on the font. The natural seasons gave personal names in the same way. Summer and Winter are both ancient names. A pre-Norman personal name Winter survived the Conquest and obtained hereditary honors as a surname in the 13th century.
Origin English, Jewish, Dutch, Danish, French, German, Polish, Swedish, Irish, Falkland, Austrian, Belgian, South african, Hungarian

Rank 1,043 (2000 US census) 1,079 (1990 US census)
Count 30,721 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.61%, or 29065 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 1.89%, or 581 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.52%, or 160 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.35%, or 108 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.02%, or 313 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.61%, or 495 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

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)...

Scottish surnames

 Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

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