# Winterbottom (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/winterbottom/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 883 |
| US rank (2010) | 27,354 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 349,655 people |
| Change since 2000 | +6.5% (829 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Winterbotham |

## Etymology

From Old English winter (“winter”) + botm (“bottom, ground”), a topographic surname for someone who lived in a valley only in winter, while spending the summer on the upland pastures.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Winterbottom in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.6% |
| Two or more races | 2.1% |

## Similar surnames

Winters, Winter, Winder, Winterton, Wentworth, Weintraub, Wunderlich, Wunder, Winders, Wynter, Wendorf.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.