The surname Winch

Various origins: * A topographic surname for someone who lived at a place where boats were hauled up onto the land by means of pulleys, from Old English winċe (“winch”). * From the second part of Old English hlēapewince (“lapwing”), probably a nickname.

Winch is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

There were 1,650 people named Winch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 187,119 Americans. That is down 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,714.

95% of people named Winch identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as two or more races and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Winch has the Soundex code W520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W520.

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All 1,446 English surnames

Where does the surname Winch come from?

Various origins: * A topographic surname for someone who lived at a place where boats were hauled up onto the land by means of pulleys, from Old English winċe (“winch”). * From the second part of Old English hlēapewince (“lapwing”), probably a nickname.

How common is the surname Winch?

1,650 people in the United States had the surname Winch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 187,119 Americans. It ranked 17,169th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Winch?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Winch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as two or more races.

What type of surname is Winch?

Winch is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Is the surname Winch getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,714 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,650 in 2010, down 3.7%.