Winnik
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Russian, someone who produces brandy
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/wɪnnɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Winnik is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- PLPoland
- ARArgentina
- DEGermany
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)
From Russian, someone who produces brandy.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 3 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Winnik is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, withe or rod for administering flogging
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)
- Salomon Winnikb. 1909Holocaust victim (born 1909)
- Klara Winnikb. 1937NLHolocaust victim (born 1937)
- Simon Winnikb. 1939Holocaust victim (born 1939)
- Françoise Winnikb. 1952FRCanadian chemist and professor, editor-in-chief of the American Chemical Society journal Langmuir
- Wojciech Winnikb. 1984PLPolish sportsperson
- Daniel Winnikb. 1985CACanadian ice hockey player
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 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 457 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 457 | #7,173 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 445 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 445 | #7,255 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 78 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 32 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 21 | #48,580 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 17 | #100,824 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 8 | #81,155 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #160,130 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Winnik mean, and where does it come from?
- From Russian, someone who produces brandy. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Winnik?
- A machine transcription gives /wɪnnɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Winnik have the most bearers?
- Winnik 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/winnikThe 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, “Winnik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.