Wynter
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From a medieval nickname for a wintry temperament; or from Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla-Gheiinlridli ‘son of the servant of Geimhreadh’; or an invented/imposed Jewish surname based on German Winter
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈwɪntɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wynter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 86K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 198K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 6.5K
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
- 257 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
1,684 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From a medieval nickname for a wintry temperament; or from Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla-Gheiinlridli ‘son of the servant of Geimhreadh’; or an invented/imposed Jewish surname based on German Winter.
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)
Wynter 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 | — | 1,684 | 1 in 198K | 4.8K | Wynter | 257 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 86K | 1.1K | Wynter | 134 |
| JM Jamaica | #283 | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Wynter | 18 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Wynter | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 129K | 11 | Wynter | 84 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 62 | 1 in 82K | 62 | Wynter | 5 |
| GY Guyana | — | 19 | 1 in 39K | 19 | — | 2 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 4 | 1 in 13K | 4 | — | 3 |
1,684 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Wynter 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, Obsolete spelling of winter.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Dana, British actress
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Dana Wynterb. 1931USGerman-British actress (1931–2011)
- Angela Wynterb. 1957GBJamaican-British actress and singer (born 1957)
- Sarah Wynterb. 1971AUAustralian actress
- Danny Lee Wynterb. 1982GBEnglish actor
- Tom Wynterb. 1990GBEnglish footballer (born 1990)
- Curtis Wynterb. 1991GBBritish footballer (born 1991)
- Jordan Wynterb. 1993GBEnglish footballer (born 1993)
- Alex Wynterb. 1993GBfootballer
- Katherine Wynterb. 1996JMbadminton player
- Edgardo Fariñab. 2001PAnot in their usual namePanamanian footballer
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 26 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,273 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,909 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,343 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.1K | #6,337 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 62 | #1,924 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 19 | #606 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 4 | #178 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Wynter mean, and where does it come from?
- From a medieval nickname for a wintry temperament; or from Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla-Gheiinlridli ‘son of the servant of Geimhreadh’; or an invented/imposed Jewish surname based on German Winter. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Wynter have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Wynter, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wynter.
- How common is the name Wynter?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,684 people named Wynter in 2010, about 1 in 198 thousand residents.
- How common is Wynter compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Wynter is the 283rd most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Wynter?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɪntɝ/ (IPA) for English.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wynterThe 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, “Wynter” — the 283rd most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.