Winter Surname

2,820th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 198,622 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Austria

Winter Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Winter.' The ecclesiastical seasons all made their mark on the font; compare Pentecost, Whitsunday, Noel, Nowell, Christmas, Middlemass (Michaelmas). The natural seasons gave personal names in the same way.

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Winter Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany81,2711:99165
United States45,9221:7,893933
England18,8421:2,957390
Australia8,8321:3,057422
Austria8,7881:96956
Canada6,0071:6,134893
Brazil5,8361:36,6821,514
Netherlands3,4601:4,881501
France2,4811:26,7733,213
New Zealand1,8501:2,448341
South Africa1,5631:34,6634,434
Switzerland1,5411:5,330804
Poland1,5091:25,1883,850
Wales8751:3,537382
Scotland7661:6,9891,076
Argentina6801:62,8585,365
Sweden5441:18,1011,517
Finland4951:11,1041,705
Czechia4861:21,8803,374
Thailand4501:156,97425,052
Hungary4471:21,9602,457
Suriname4151:1,332115
Dominican Republic4011:26,0171,610
Guyana3491:2,184393
Denmark3481:16,2201,599
Saudi Arabia3181:97,03114,320
Guatemala3071:52,3872,305
Spain2941:159,02111,586
Northern Ireland2441:7,5621,297
Chile2181:80,8103,215
Morocco2041:169,00029,345
Trinidad and Tobago2021:6,7521,018
Belgium1741:66,07310,595
Singapore1201:45,8981,743
Slovakia1171:45,6118,683
Nigeria1151:1,540,37258,295
Ireland1071:44,0093,343
Jamaica1051:27,3332,094
China1021:13,405,113805
Indonesia991:1,335,85092,420
Norway921:55,8948,011
Antigua and Barbuda911:1,090188
Costa Rica871:54,9431,207
Panama821:47,7102,355
Portugal751:138,9106,177
Saint Lucia701:2,554400
Zimbabwe681:227,03325,258
Nicaragua601:100,3521,886
Uganda561:697,13035,026
Malaysia541:546,18926,882
Papua New Guinea521:156,80221,647
Mexico511:2,433,84720,676
Italy501:1,223,13475,323
Luxembourg481:12,0952,127
Croatia451:93,96915,353
Ecuador401:397,6469,955
Paraguay361:201,0213,750
Philippines351:2,892,521138,859
Barbados321:8,983725
India301:25,568,846339,406
Kuwait291:131,05814,967
Iran281:2,742,23386,474
Greece271:410,36354,524
Iraq261:1,346,98715,017
Peru261:1,222,46620,703
Uruguay261:131,99112,009
Hong Kong231:318,9343,111
Slovenia211:118,46112,441
Malta181:23,9041,289
Vietnam181:5,147,0032,420
Botswana171:128,64318,229
Israel171:503,39037,521
Liberia171:259,32615,766
New Caledonia161:17,2644,719
Jersey141:7,0861,520
Egypt121:7,661,31348,120
Iceland111:34,5542,447
Malawi111:1,556,28319,518
Bermuda101:6,5281,005
British Virgin Islands101:3,159366
Isle of Man101:8,5821,778
Bahrain91:149,8455,469
Ghana81:3,377,58615,333
Guam81:20,0153,029
Japan81:15,980,53747,042
Venezuela81:3,775,51036,567
Kenya71:6,597,12951,431
Cuba61:1,920,4538,345
Qatar61:393,00055,922
South Korea61:8,540,0431,433
Sri Lanka61:3,468,09312,102
United Arab Emirates61:1,527,04651,993
Bahamas51:78,350887
Cameroon51:4,153,814129,697
Cayman Islands51:12,7791,374
Romania51:4,015,57458,306
Bolivia41:2,654,1087,945
French Polynesia41:70,2014,444
Guernsey41:16,1101,225
Mauritius41:323,35410,053
Russia41:36,030,764577,589
Saint Kitts and Nevis41:13,800846
Turkey41:19,455,356155,681
United States Virgin Islands41:27,5943,273
Kazakhstan31:5,894,165166,702
Taiwan31:7,814,91541,694
Afghanistan21:16,076,59243,178
Algeria21:19,315,77697,017
Bangladesh21:79,678,38625,993
Benin21:5,167,80184,334
Colombia21:23,887,03632,612
DR Congo21:36,939,785260,488
Ivory Coast21:11,535,61661,806
Macau21:300,8151,009
Myanmar21:25,968,9922,110
Oman21:1,843,9869,590
Rwanda21:5,682,4895,910
Serbia21:3,572,47432,645
Solomon Islands21:290,01419,875
Syria21:9,650,51117,817
Tanzania21:26,470,806111,653
Togo21:3,623,88411,997
Armenia11:2,930,18022,770
Aruba11:103,4772,586
Belize11:355,4743,977
Brunei11:418,7313,893
Bulgaria11:6,978,90586,260
Chad11:13,592,19913,092
Cyprus11:884,87613,055
El Salvador11:6,343,8888,415
Equatorial Guinea11:1,135,674984
Estonia11:1,321,80440,178
Georgia11:3,745,54547,852
Gibraltar11:33,9541,660
Greenland11:56,3791,133
Grenada11:108,5351,793
Haiti11:10,683,90724,607
Jordan11:8,842,43726,010
Kyrgyzstan11:5,972,65499,197
Laos11:6,588,3231,961
Lebanon11:5,637,08332,436
Liechtenstein11:38,3781,726
Maldives11:404,1727,269
Micronesia11:106,2431,380
Mozambique11:27,261,5697,432
Namibia11:2,409,40119,676
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220
Puerto Rico11:3,550,1399,109
Samoa11:193,8081,089
Sudan11:37,510,19514,259
Tunisia11:610,62630,336
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PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland2831:15,6531,969
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England9,8421:2,477350
Scotland5431:6,894980
Wales2451:6,402420
Jersey111:4,717830
Isle of Man51:10,8541,028
Guernsey21:16,3281,834
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States7,4071:6,780858

Winter (11,070) may also be a first name.

Winter Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Winter.' The ecclesiastical seasons all made their mark on the font; compare Pentecost, Whitsunday, Noel, Nowell, Christmas, Middlemass (Michaelmas). The natural seasons gave personal names in the same way. 'Summer and Winter are both ancient names; in the Cod. Dip. Alamannioe there are two brothers called respectively Sumar and Winter, A.D. 858. Winter was also the name of one of the companions of Hereward the Saxon' (Ferguson, Surnames as a Science). Although a pre - Norman personal name, Winter survived the Conquest, and attained hereditary honours as a surname in the 13th cent. We may observe here that Winter is compounded with several local surnames, such as Wintersgill, Winterbotham, Winterburn, or Winterflood. Professor Skeat shows that winter means literally the wet season. In these place words we recognize low-lying hollows or streams liable to be flooded by winter rains, although dry in the summer.

Philip Winter, Close Rolls, 48 Henry III.

John Winter. Rolls of Parliament.

Wynter Mariot, Norfolk, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Gelle Winter, Cambridgeshire, ibid.

Emma Wynter. 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

Most probably the Old English personal name Wintra (Birch, CS. 101, A.D. 699) and Uuintra (ibid., 108, A.D. 704), associated in the popular mind with Old English winter, 'winter' (Redin, p. 58). Elsi, son of Winter, had a grant of the lands of Thirlstane from Hugh de Morville before 1162 (Caledonia, I, p. 504). Jop Wyntyr was a charter witness at Yester in 1374 (Yester, p. 26), Thomas Wyntir was bailie of Glasgow in 1447 (LCD., p. 168), John Wyntyr, burgess of Arbroath in 1452 (RAA., II, 94), and George Wynter was a charter witness in Kimmerghame in 1474 (Home, 27). David Wyntyr or Wynter, a citizen of Glasgow in 1487-88, held land there before 1494 (LCD., p. 256; REG., p. 457,487). Robert Wynter, monk of Culross in the middle of the sixteenth century (PSAS., LX, p. 93).

— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

(English) This season-name has been used in pers. nomenclature from a very early period [Old English winter = Old Frisian winter = Old Saxon O.H.Ger. wintar= Gothic wintru-s]

— Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

(English, German) Descendant of Winter (name given to one born during the winter); dweller at the white water; descendant of Winidhari (wind, army); one who dealt in wine.

— Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

Winter was the name of one of the companions of the Anglo-Saxon Hereward, and Winter and Sommer are both German and modern Danish names. Ferguson thinks Summer and Winter derived from the personification of these seasons in Northern mythology. Others derive Summer and Winter from Sumner and Vintner, and there is the name Vinter.

— Ludus Patronymicus (1868) by Richard Stephen Charnock

From the Swedish-Dutch-Flemish-German, Winter; a personal name.

— British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber
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Winter Demographics

Average Male Winter Height

176.35 cm

Average male height (US):
175.3 cm
Sample size: 861 (2014)

Average Female Winter Height

162.24 cm

Average female height (US):
161.5 cm
Sample size: 120 (2014)

Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries

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Winter Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Winter Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Winter (Arabic: نتر) is found most frequently in Germany. It can also occur as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Winter.

How Common Is The Last Name Winter? popularity and diffusion

The last name Winter is the 2,820th most widely held surname on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 36,691 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 62 percent of Winter live; 49 percent live in Western Europe and 48 percent live in Germanic Europe. Winter is also the 57,224th most frequent first name in the world, held by 11,070 people.

Winter is most frequently used in Germany, where it is carried by 81,271 people, or 1 in 991. In Germany it is primarily found in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 17 percent live, Bavaria, where 17 percent live and Baden-Württemberg, where 13 percent live. Apart from Germany it is found in 150 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 23 percent live and England, where 9 percent live.

Winter Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Winter has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Winter last name rose 620 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 191 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it rose 357 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it rose 141 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it decreased 62 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Winter Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those bearing the Winter surname is primarily Anglican (45%) in Ireland and Orthodox (74%) in Russia.

In The United States Winter are 12.81% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 59.58% being registered with the political party.

The amount Winter earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 4.9% more than the national average, earning 363,043 kr per year; in Peru they earn 114.5% more than the national average, earning S/. 41,580 per year; in South Africa they earn 74.23% more than the national average, earning R 414,036 per year; in United States they earn 6.77% more than the national average, earning $46,069 USD per year and in Canada they earn 4.9% more than the national average, earning $52,115 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Winther9210,151/
Wintter92168/
Whinter9214/
Winterø927/
Winterz926/
Winteer924/
Wintere923/
Weinter923/
Winnter922/
Winterr922/
Wintier922/
Windter922/
Wienter921/
Wuinter921/
Wintger920/
Winteur920/
Wnter911/
Winterre862/
Weintere862/
Winterdt861/
Wuinther861/
Wienteer861/
Winttier861/
Whinther861/
Wynter837,949/
Vinter835,811/
Binter83861/
Wenter83786/
Wintre8314/
Uinter8312/
Wimter833/
Wintyr833/
Wintir830/
Winterová80565/
Winterova809/
Vinther773,162/
Vintere77242/
Whynter7740/
Weintre7731/
Binther7717/
Wenther7715/
Huinter777/
Wintair773/
Wentter773/
Wynther773/
Bintter772/
Vintter772/
Wyntter771/
Vintier771/
Wwenter771/
Wentert771/
Wynteer770/
Vnter731/
Venter6792,841/
Benter672,164/
Bünter67713/
Vinterová67371/
Vynter67185/
Vinterova6712/
Bintir678/
Vintre672/
Vintér671/
Wenterová671/
Vimter671/
Wyntre671/
Bűnter671/
Uenter670/
Bynter670/
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Winter Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Winter in the Arabic language
نترntr-
ونترwntr-
وينترwyntr-

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