Winchester
loc · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Winchester is a name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. It appears chiefly in English and Italian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Person from Winchester, Hampshire, from the Roman town Venta.
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 278◐
- CACanada1 in 30K
- USUnited States1 in 32K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈11K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 333 ●
- 1 in 32K ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
104K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled วินเชสเตอร์ in TH Thailand, Winchèster in IT Italy and Winçhester in DZ Algeria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Person from Winchester, Hampshire, from the Roman town Venta.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | 1,009,570 | 5.7K rec. | — | — | Winchester | 118 |
| US United States | 10,480 | 85K rec. | 1 in 32K | 10K | Winchester | 333 |
| CA Canada | 7,286 | 2K rec. | — | — | Winchester | 74 |
| KY Cayman Islands | 605 | 8 rec. | — | — | Winchester | 1 |
| IN India | 141 | 72 rec. | — | — | Winchester | 16 |
| RU Russia | 92 | 318 rec. | — | — | Winchester | 21 |
| NZ New Zealand | 85 | 276 rec. | — | — | Winchester | 42 |
| CN China | 76 | 139 rec. | — | — | Winchester | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 64 | 104 rec. | — | — | Winchester | 14 |
| BR Brazil | 39 | 0 rec. | 1 in 5.4M | 39 | — | 1 |
| AU Australia | 19 | 3.1K rec. | — | 1 | Winchester | 107 |
| ES Spain | 13 | 240 rec. | 1 in 3.8M | 13 | — | 20 |
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Languages●
- English1.5M72%
- Italian1.2K1%
- Finnish8691%
- Hindi1411%
- Portuguese851%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,486,071 | 72% |
| Italian | 1,201 | 1% |
| Finnish | 869 | 1% |
| Hindi | 141 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 85 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Winchester is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Winchester, Hampshire; first attested Odo de Wincestre 1086 DB (Ha)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In French, Cette arme à feu, fusil à répétition, fut commercialisée par l’Américain Oliver Fisher Winchester (1810-1880) qui était, au départ, un fabricant de chemises.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In English, city , England
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Winchester (rifle)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2017 | 11 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 10 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 12 years between 2014–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- James Winchesterb. 1752USAmerican military figure and politician (1752–1826)
- Oliver Winchesterb. 1810USAmerican businessman and politician (1810-1880)
- Sarah Winchesterb. 1839USAmerican heiress and occultist (1839–1922)
- Lem Winchesterb. 1928USAmerican recording artist, vibraphonist, jazz musician, police officer (1928–1961)
- Simon Winchesterb. 1944GBBritish journalist and popular historian
- Jesse Winchesterb. 1944USAmerican-Canadian singer-songwriter, producer
- Philip Winchesterb. 1981USAmerican stage actor, television actor and film actor
- Jacarra Winchesterb. 1992USAmerican wrestler (1992-)
- Shahdon Winchesterb. 1992TTTrinidadian footballer (1992-2019)
- Carl Winchesterb. 1993GBNorthern Ireland association football player (born 1993)
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 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 10K | #3,413 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 10K | #3,401 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 10K | #3,212 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 139 | #45,674 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 39 | #124,653 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 15 | — |
| CK Cook Islands | Cook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua) | 2022 | 14 | #45 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 11 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #53,109 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #53,723 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 10 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 42 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Winchester?
- We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Winchester (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Winchester have the most bearers?
- Winchester is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled winchester.
- What does the name Winchester mean?
- Recorded meaning: Person from Winchester, Hampshire, from the Roman town Venta.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Winchester”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.