Windle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Windle or Windhill, Lancashire/Yorkshire, meaning ‘windy hill’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈwɪndəl/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Windle is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Person from Windle or Windhill, Lancashire/Yorkshire, meaning ‘windy hill’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Windle is also recorded in 3 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 Windhill in W Yorks, or Windle in Lancs., both so called from OE zvind wind + hyll Hill, i.e. a mound ex¬ posed to fierce gusts. Vars.: Wiltsh(i)er, Wiltshear, Will(i)shire, Wilshire, Wil(l)sher(e), Willshear, Wilcher, Wiltshaw, Wil(l)shaw. Var.: Wintle (Gloucs.). Wimmers see Wymer 665 Winton Windsor
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, The redwing.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, An English name (from wind hill) mainly found in Co. Limerick, where it was established in the second half of the seventeenth century: it is spelt Wingle in the Glin area of the county. Woulfe says that Winkle, found in south Galway, is a variant of the same name
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)- Billy Windleb. 1920GBFootballer (1920-2011)
- Bob Windleb. 1944AUAustralian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, former world record-holder
- Jordan Windleb. 1998USCambodian-born American Olympic diver
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)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Windle mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Windle or Windhill, Lancashire/Yorkshire, meaning ‘windy hill’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Windle?
- In English /ˈwɪndəl/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Windle have the most bearers?
- Windle is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Windle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.