Winckler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Schreibung zu Winkel-/Winckel-Namen; Kompositionsbildung mit -er, in ganz Deutschland außer Bayern verbreitet
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈwɪŋkɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Winckler is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- FRFrance
- BRBrazil
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Schreibung zu Winkel-/Winckel-Namen; Kompositionsbildung mit -er, in ganz Deutschland außer Bayern verbreitet.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Friedrich Wincklerb. 1856DEGerman politician (1856-1943)
- Hugo Wincklerb. 1863DEGerman archaeologist (1863–1913)
- Charles Wincklerb. 1867DKDanish shot putter (1867–1932)
- Josef Wincklerb. 1881DEGerman writer (1881–1966)
- Gustav Wincklerb. 1925DKDanish singer-songwriter (1925-1979)
- Clemens Wincklerb. 1936DEGerman politician (1936–2014)
- Martin Wincklerb. 1955FRFrench writer
- Henner Wincklerb. 1969DEGerman film director and screenwriter
- Heinz Wincklerb. 1978ZASouth African singer
- Anke Wincklerb. 1981costume designer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 901 | #26,932 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 892 | #28,435 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 837 | #27,176 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 770 | #11,621 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 114 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 104 | #5,238 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 70 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 62 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 59 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 51 | #12,491 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Winckler?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɪŋkɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Winckler mean?
- Recorded meaning: Schreibung zu Winkel-/Winckel-Namen; Kompositionsbildung mit -er, in ganz Deutschland außer Bayern verbreitet.
- In which country does Winckler have the most bearers?
- Winckler is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wincklerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Winckler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.