Wynn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From the Old English personal name Wine, literally 'friend', or from the first element of compound names beginning with Wine
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/wɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wynn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 11K
- CACanada≈1 in 16K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 471 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
29,417 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Old English personal name Wine, literally 'friend', or from the first element of compound names beginning with Wine.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wynn 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 | #981 | 29,417 | 1 in 11K | 29K | Wynn | 471 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 4.9K | Wynn | 187 |
| GH Ghana | #512 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Wynn | 5 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Wynn | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 5 | Wynn | 105 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Wynn | 19 |
| JM Jamaica | #303 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Wynn | 5 |
29,417 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Wynn 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 Welsh gwyn ‘white/fair’; later surname form of Gwydir-derived line.
as a nameWelsh Surnames
In English, from Welsh gwyn/wyn ‘white, fair’; John (Wyn) ap Maredudd died 1559, and his son Maurice Wynn first used the surname.
as a nameWelsh Surnames
In ang, joy, delight
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)
- Ed Wynnb. 1886USAmerican actor (1886-1966)
- Keenan Wynnb. 1916USAmerican actor (1916–1986)
- May Wynnb. 1930USAmerican dancer, animator, cartoonist, singer and actress (1930–2021)
- Steve Wynnb. 1942USAmerican businessman
- Tracy Keenan Wynnb. 1945USAmerican screenwriter
- Steve Wynnb. 1960USAmerican musician
- Tim Wynnb. 1970USAmerican film composer
- Tyla Wynnb. 1982USAmerican pornographic actress
- Jessica Keenan Wynnb. 1986USAmerican actress and singer
- Natalie Wynnb. 1988USAmerican YouTuber (born 1988)
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 43 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 29K | #1,203 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 28K | #1,215 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 28K | #1,142 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 4.9K | #1,631 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Wynn?
- A machine transcription gives /wɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Wynn mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Old English personal name Wine, literally 'friend', or from the first element of compound names beginning with Wine. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Wynn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Wynn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wynn.
- What are other forms of the name Wynn?
- In the etymology graph, Finn, Wynne and Uuyn are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Wynn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 29,417 people named Wynn in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Wynn compared with other names?
- In the United States, Wynn is the 981st most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Wynn” — the 981st most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.