Winstanley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Winstanley, Lancashire, meaning ‘Wynnstan’s glade’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwɪnstənɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Winstanley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 624K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 637K
- ESSpain1 in 1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 624K (inferred from the name graph)
533 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
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 Winstanley, Lancashire, meaning ‘Wynnstan’s glade’.
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)
Winstanley 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 533 | 1 in 624K | 533 | Winstanley | 6 |
| ES Spain | 48 | 1 in 1M | 48 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 8 | 1 in 637K | 8 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 5 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
533 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Winstanley is also recorded in 3 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 Winstanley, Lancashire; first attested Roger de Winstanesleg' 1212 Fees (Lancashire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, place near Manchester, so called from the OE personal name Wynnstdn (see Winston i) + OE leak wood, clear¬ ing. 666 Wix Winyard
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD5503).
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)
- Gerrard Winstanleyb. 1609GBEnglish reformer and activist (1609-1676)
- William Winstanleyb. 1628GBEnglish poet
- Henry Winstanleyb. 1644GBEnglish engineer and painter (1644-1703)
- Hamlet Winstanleyb. 1698GBEnglish painter (1698-1756)
- Michael Winstanley, Baron Winstanleyb. 1918GBBritish politician (1918-1993)
- Alan Winstanleyb. 1952GBEnglish record producer
- Gina Abercrombie-Winstanleyb. 1957USAmerican diplomat
- Chelsea Winstanleyb. 1976NZNew Zealand film producer
- Ivan Winstanleyb. 1976ZASouth African footballer
- Silvana VargasPEnot in their usual namePeruvian sociologist
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 533 | #40,909 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 521 | #44,416 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 495 | #41,448 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 48 | #46,359 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 48 | #45,681 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 8 | #6,178 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #211,269 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #126,152 |
| 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 Winstanley mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Winstanley, Lancashire, meaning ‘Wynnstan’s glade’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Winstanley?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɪnstənɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Winstanley have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 533 people named Winstanley, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled winstanley.
- Where is Winstanley most common?
- Winstanley is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 624 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Winstanley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 533 people named Winstanley in 2010, about 1 in 624 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/winstanleyThe 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, “Winstanley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.