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    The surname Winterbottom

    An English place surname, carried by 883 people in the United States.

    4 syllables Soundex W536

    Winterbottom: #27,354 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Winterbottom #27,354, 883 people Winterbottom: #27,354 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Winterbottom #27,354, 883 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Winterbottom is more common than 83.1% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    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.

    Winterbottom 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 883 people named Winterbottom in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 349,655 Americans. That is up 6.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 829.

    #27,354
    rank among US surnames
    883
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.5%
    change since 2000 (was #27,386)

    Who is named Winterbottom

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

    94% of people named Winterbottom identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as two or more races and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Winterbotham

    Surnames that sound like Winterbottom

    Winterbottom has the Soundex code W536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W536.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Winterbottom come from?
    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.
    How common is the surname Winterbottom?
    883 people in the United States had the surname Winterbottom in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 349,655 Americans. It ranked 27,354th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Winterbottom?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Winterbottom identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Winterbottom?
    Winterbottom is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Winterbottom getting more or less common?
    More common. 829 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 883 in 2010, up 6.5%.
    What are other spellings of Winterbottom?
    Winterbotham.