Wynne

surname · Latin script

Meaning: From the Old English personal name Wine, literally 'friend', or from the first element of compound names beginning with Wine

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/wɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Wynne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 16K
  • CACanada≈1 in 29K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

9,637 people, 2010

Sources
410 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)

St. Vincent & Grenadines

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From the Old English personal name Wine, literally 'friend', or from the first element of compound names beginning with Wine.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Wynne, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Wynne counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Wynne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—9,6371 in 35K9.6KWynne410
GB United Kingdom—≈4,700 est.≈1 in 14K6.6KWynne206
AU Australia—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 16K1Wynne155
CA Canada—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 29K1Wynne120
ZA South Africa—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 44K—Wynne38
IE Ireland#686≈670 est.≈1 in 7.7K—Wynne89
NZ New Zealand—≈280 est.≈1 in 18K—Wynne62
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines—601 in 1.7K60—1

9,637 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Wynne is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

62 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(measured from records)

Wynne 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.

  • ,2 Probably a transferred use of the surname, which is derived from the Old and Middle English personal name Wine. Variant: Wynn. See also Wyn and Win.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Irish, This is akin to the Welsh Gwynn; it is also a synonym of several Irish names which contain the sound gee ( gaoithe, of wind), e.g. MacGee, Geehan, Mulgeehy. MIF

    as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland

  • 1 (m.) English: transferred use of the surname, which is derived from the Old and Middle English personal name Wine ‘friend’. 2 (m.) Welsh: elaborated spelling of WYN . Top

    as a word

  • In enm, happiness, pleasure, delight

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Robert Wynne, b. 1851Arthur Wynne, b. 1871Nancye Wynne, b. 1916Greville Wynne, b. 1919Philippé Wynne, b. 1941Michael Wynne, b. 1944Kathleen Wynne, b. 1953Ian Wynne, b. 1973Marvell Wynne, b. 1986Deklan Wynne, b. 1996

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 44 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Wynne
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.4K#9,035
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020208#9,035
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202532—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20209—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20237—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20147—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20216—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20136—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20126—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20116—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20215—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20185—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Wynne?
In the etymology graph, Wynn is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Wynne?
A machine transcription gives /wɪn/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Wynne mean, and where does it come from?
From the Old English personal name Wine, literally 'friend', or from the first element of compound names beginning with Wine. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
In which country does Wynne have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 9.6 thousand people named Wynne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wynne.
Where is Wynne most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wynne is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 1.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Wynne?
In the United States, the national register counted 9,637 people named Wynne in 2010, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
How common is Wynne compared with other names?
In Ireland, Wynne is the 686th most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Wynne” — the 686th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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