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    The surname Winstanley

    An English place surname, carried by 533 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex W523

    Winstanley: #40,909 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Winstanley #40,909, 533 people Winstanley: #40,909 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Winstanley #40,909, 533 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Winstanley is more common than 74.8% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the Old English personal name Wynnstān + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

    Winstanley 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).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 533 people named Winstanley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 579,260 Americans. That is up 7.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 495.

    #40,909
    rank among US surnames
    533
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.7%
    change since 2000 (was #41,448)

    Who is named Winstanley

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    95% of people named Winstanley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Winstanley

    Winstanley has the Soundex code W523, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W523.

    Other English surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Winstanley come from?
    From the Old English personal name Wynnstān + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
    How common is the surname Winstanley?
    533 people in the United States had the surname Winstanley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 579,260 Americans. It ranked 40,909th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Winstanley?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Winstanley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Winstanley?
    Winstanley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Winstanley getting more or less common?
    More common. 495 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 533 in 2010, up 7.7%.