Wingate
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Wingate, a place-name meaning ‘windswept gap’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwɪnˌɡeɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wingate is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 40K
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 21K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 381 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Myanmar (Burma), 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 Wingate, a place-name meaning ‘windswept gap’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wingate 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 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Wingate | 5 |
| US United States | 8,359 | 1 in 40K | 8.4K | Wingate | 381 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Wingate | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 1.5K | Wingate | 133 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Wingate | 15 |
| GH Ghana | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Wingate | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Wingate | 31 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Wingate is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, ‘dweller in a windy pass’ (OE *wind-geat ‘gate for the wind’); first attested Aldret de Windegate c.145–65 Seals (Northumberland)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Any of a number of towns in English-speaking countries:
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)
- Paine Wingateb. 1739USAmerican politician (1739-1838)
- Joseph F. Wingateb. 1786USAmerican politician
- George Wood Wingateb. 1840USAmerican lawyer and Union Army soldier (1840–1928)
- Reginald Wingateb. 1861GBBritish general, administrator and diplomat (1861–1953)
- Orde Wingateb. 1903GBBritish Army officer, creator of the Chindit mission in World War II (1903–1944)
- Tony Wingateb. 1955GBFootballer (born 1955)
- David Wingateb. 1963USAmerican basketball player (born 1963)
- Max Bb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper and convicted felon
- Major Wingateb. 1983USAmerican basketball player (born 1983)
- Ann Wingateb. 2000British film producer
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)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.4K | #4,242 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.2K | #3,968 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8K | #4,292 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.5K | #4,879 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Wingate mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Wingate, a place-name meaning ‘windswept gap’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Wingate?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɪnˌɡeɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wingate have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Wingate in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wingate.
- How common is the name Wingate?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,359 people named Wingate in 2010, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wingateThe 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, “Wingate”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.