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Winne

Winne. Attested in United States of America, Belgium, France, borne by about 1,296 people in the registers this map holds.

The same name, spelt two ways

One systematic substitution — s for z, w for v, ch for h — where BOTH spellings are independently attested surnames. Kosina and Kozina are one man in two clerks' handwriting. Stronger than sounding alike, weaker than somebody having checked.

WynneWine

Only sounds alike

An algorithm's guess. Useful for casting a net, and not evidence.

WinnWenneWieneWingeWinjeWinnaWinny

What Wiktionary says this name is

Copied from the surname template on Wiktionary, not worked out here, and not from its etymology prose. Anyone may edit it; the page and the revision it was read at are linked below.

  • English recorded as a surname in these languages

    A language here is the language of the NAME, not a country a family came from — the same caveat the Wikidata section carries, and worth repeating rather than assumed read.

Winne on Wiktionary ↗ — read at revision 87366146. Text from Wiktionary, by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

It is also the name of a place

2 places drawn, the largest being Wynne, WinneWinne — 1Wynne — 8,193
Where those places are. A dot is a settlement whose name is this surname, sized by its population — not a claim that anybody of the name lives there. Phonetic neighbours are listed below but not drawn: putting a machine's guess on the ground would dress it up as geography.

This is as close to an origin as this map will go. A surname that is also a place name often came from it — and often did not: plenty are occupations or patronymics that happen to collide with a place, and plenty of places are named after a family rather than the other way round. It is a fact with a source, which is more than an etymology page offers.

  • Winne Germany
  • Wynne United States of America pop. 8,193 a spelling of the name
  • Winn United States of America pop. 437 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
  • Winn Germany only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
  • Winna Poland only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 3 countries: United States of America, Belgium, FranceFrance — 153 peopleBelgium — 206 peopleUnited States of America — 937 people
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. Blank is not absence. This draws the 3 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.
Belgium, by commune. 206 people in 25 of Belgium's 565 communes, counted by Statbel. The biggest is Ieper with 20. This is the only country here that can be drawn this way — every other register counts a country and stops, so a blank elsewhere is a gap in what states publish, not in the name.
25 places drawn, the largest being Ieper, Staden, Knokke-Heist, Gent, Hooglede, Diksmuide, Merelbeke-Melle, Wervik, Gistel, BruggeDoornik — 5Deinze — 5Roeselare — 5De Haan — 5Bredene — 5Zedelgem — 5Torhout — 5Moorslede — 6Kortemark — 6Houthulst — 6Moeskroen — 7Oostende — 7Ichtegem — 7Kortrijk — 7Oostkamp — 7Brugge — 7Gistel — 8Wervik — 8Merelbeke-Melle — 9Diksmuide — 10Hooglede — 11Gent — 14Knokke-Heist — 15Staden — 16Ieper — 20

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

United States of America

937 Borne — a state counted them — Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census; Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2000 Census.

Whose archive to write to

482,885 of 528,875 volumes held for United States of America overlap the 1750s, 1810s, 1820s, 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s — the decades Winne is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Winne. The commonest kinds: Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Immigration and emigration, Censuses and population lists. See everything this atlas holds for United States of America →

Belgium

206 Borne — a state counted them — Family names by municipality, 1 January 2026 (Statbel, TA_POP_LST_2026).

Whose archive to write to

3,982 of 24,426 volumes held for Belgium overlap the 1900s — the decades Winne is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Winne. The commonest kinds: Civil registration and vital records. See everything this atlas holds for Belgium →

France

153 Borne — a state counted them — Fichier des noms de famille 1891–2000 (INSEE, fichier national).

Whose archive to write to
Attested here, and nothing that survives covers those years

Winne is attested in France in the 1990s. Not one of the 1,513 volumes this atlas holds for France covers those years — worth knowing before an afternoon is spent on France's shelf rather than after.

When it was being born, in France

INSEE counts births by surname and decade from the état civil, 1891 to 2000 — the only dated evidence in this dataset. A name that starts at zero and climbs arrived; a name that falls to nothing left, died out, or emigrated, and the decade it stops is the decade to stop searching. It counts births registered in France, so a family that emigrated in 1900 simply stops appearing, which is information rather than a defect.

  • 1891–1900 10
  • 1901–1910 12
  • 1911–1920 16
  • 1921–1930 14
  • 1931–1940 10
  • 1941–1950 12
  • 1951–1960 16
  • 1961–1970 13
  • 1971–1980 17
  • 1981–1990 20
  • 1991–2000 13

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

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