Winchester
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Winchester, Hampshire, from the Roman town Venta
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Winchester is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 32K
- CACanada≈1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 387 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cayman Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Winchester, Hampshire, from the Roman town Venta.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Winchester counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Winchester | 5 |
| US United States | 10,480 | 1 in 32K | 10K | Winchester | 387 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 1.9K | Winchester | 156 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Winchester | 97 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 1 | Winchester | 118 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Winchester | 50 |
| KY Cayman Islands | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Winchester | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Winchester is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Winchester, Hampshire; first attested Odo de Wincestre 1086 DB (Ha)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In French, Cette arme à feu, fusil à répétition, fut commercialisée par l’Américain Oliver Fisher Winchester (1810-1880) qui était, au départ, un fabricant de chemises.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In English, city , England
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Winchester (rifle)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James Winchesterb. 1752USAmerican military figure and politician (1752–1826)
- Oliver Winchesterb. 1810USAmerican businessman and politician (1810-1880)
- Sarah Winchesterb. 1839USAmerican heiress and occultist (1839–1922)
- Lem Winchesterb. 1928USAmerican recording artist, vibraphonist, jazz musician, police officer (1928–1961)
- Simon Winchesterb. 1944GBBritish journalist and popular historian
- Jesse Winchesterb. 1944USAmerican-Canadian singer-songwriter, producer
- Philip Winchesterb. 1981USAmerican stage actor, television actor and film actor
- Jacarra Winchesterb. 1992USAmerican wrestler (1992-)
- Shahdon Winchesterb. 1992TTTrinidadian footballer (1992-2019)
- Carl Winchesterb. 1993GBNorthern Ireland association football player (born 1993)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 10K | #3,413 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 10K | #3,401 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 10K | #3,212 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.9K | #3,871 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 139 | #45,674 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 10 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #45,674 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 9 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Winchester mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Winchester, Hampshire, from the Roman town Venta. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Winchester have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Winchester in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled winchester.
- How common is the name Winchester?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,480 people named Winchester in 2010, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Winchester”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.