Wyndham
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) Person from Wyndham, Sussex ('Winda's water meadow') or from Wymondham, Leicestershire/Norfolk ('Wigmund's homestead')
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/wɪndəm/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Wyndham is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
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)(i) Person from Wyndham, Sussex ('Winda's water meadow') or from Wymondham, Leicestershire/Norfolk ('Wigmund's homestead'). (ii) From Irish Gaelic O Gaoithin, 'descendant of Gaoithin', literally 'little wind'.
Cited for this meaning 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)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Wyndham is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Transferred from the surname Wyndham; place-name origin.
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Transferred use of the surname, which is derived from a contracted form of the name of Wymondham in Norfolk, originally named in Old English as the ‘homestead of Wigmund’. John Wyndham was the pseudonym of the British science-fiction writer John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (1903-63), creator of the Midwich cuckoos.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A small village in Bridgend borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9391).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, This aristocratic English name is an occasional synonym of Mulgeehy. In the Co. Galway gaeltacht it is called Gaoithín. See Wynne
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
English: transferred use of the surname, which is derived from a contracted form of the placename Wymondham in Norfolk, originally named in Old English as the ‘homestead of Wigmund’.
as a word
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)- Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremontb. 1710GBBritish politician and earl (1710-1763)
- Elizabeth Wyndhamb. 1720GBBritish artist and writer; (1720-1769)
- George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremontb. 1751GBBritish earl and art collector (1751-1837)
- William Frederick Wyndhamb. 1763GBEnglish diplomat
- Henry Wyndhamb. 1790GBBritish politician
- Charles Wyndhamb. 1837GBEnglish actor-manager (1837–1919)
- George Wyndhamb. 1863GBBritish politician (1863-1913)
- John Wyndhamb. 1903GBEnglish science fiction author (1903–1969)
- Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremontb. 1948GBBritish baron
- Alex Wyndhamb. 1981GBBritish actor
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 636 | #37,603 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 604 | #36,970 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 553 | #37,788 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 253 | #18,322 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #71,868 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Wyndham mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) Person from Wyndham, Sussex ('Winda's water meadow') or from Wymondham, Leicestershire/Norfolk ('Wigmund's homestead'). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Wyndham?
- In English /wɪndəm/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Wyndham have the most bearers?
- Wyndham is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wyndham”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.