Win

surname · Burmese · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Win is a surname, most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is the 9th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Burmese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from ahd./mhd. wini 'friend'; also sometimes influenced by wîn 'wine' or WONNE.

rarermore common
  • MMMyanmar (Burma)1 in 79◐
  • SGSingapore1 in 3.1K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 3.2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.3K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
203 ●

44K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 35K ◐

Norway

Meaning & origin●

from ahd./mhd. wini 'friend'; also sometimes influenced by wîn 'wine' or WONNE

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Win is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MM Myanmar (Burma)#925,70611K rec.—listedWin120
MY Malaysia#21817,0206.4K rec.——Win45
SG Singapore#1783,0694.6K rec.——Win80
US United States—2,82012K rec.1 in 118K4.9KWin203
ID Indonesia—1,7142.3K rec.——Win90
VN Vietnam#5167811.5K rec.——Win52
GB United Kingdom—472616 rec.—listedWin62
SE Sweden—431439 rec.—60Win14
PH Philippines—282358 rec.——Win21
CA Canada—206351 rec.—1Win31
HK Hong Kong#770197826 rec.——Win16
NO Norway—158△53 rec.1 in 35K158—18

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Burmese49K55%
  • English14K16%
  • Thai4K4%
  • Indonesian2.8K3%
  • Vietnamese2.4K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Burmese48,79355%
English13,95916%
Thai3,9604%
Indonesian2,7583%
Vietnamese2,4473%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Win is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname37K records spelled Win12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Wîñ, Wïn, Wîn, Wiň, Wìñ

  • a separate surname2.4K records spelled Win9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Wīn, Wîñ, Wíñ, Wiñ, Wįn

  • French surname2.0K records spelled Win6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Malaysia

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Wïn, Wîn, Ŵïn, Wîñ

  • a separate surname1.3K records spelled Win2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Also written Wīn

63 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Win is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In qfa-yen-pro, oneself

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In enm, alternative form of wynne (“happiness”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • ISO 639-3 language code for Winnebago.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Yoruba, to aim at a target with a projectile

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Welsh, soft mutation of gwin

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05101520196019802000202016 · 2022

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Win in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1951–2025
Yearrecords
19515
19536
19546
195610
19577
19589
19616
19645
19845
19895
19905
19956
19995
20096
20116
20125
20146
20155
20167
20179
20186
20196
202114
202216
20237
20248
20259

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 27 years between 1951–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 44 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Win
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.9K#6,582
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.8K#11,209
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#8,762
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001K#23,237
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020470#8,762
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—158#10,062
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—131#51,558
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—104#17,449
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—74#9,427
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—69#6,441
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—66#7,092
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—60#12,123

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 228 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Win?
We estimate roughly 3.3 thousand people bear Win (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Win have the most bearers?
Win is most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is most often spelled win.
How common is Win compared with other names?
In Myanmar (Burma), Win is the 9th most common surname of 11,340 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Win mean?
Recorded meaning: from ahd./mhd. wini 'friend'; also sometimes influenced by wîn 'wine' or WONNE
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Win” — the 9th most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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