Given name & surname
Winsor
“from the river that has a winch”
Winsor is a variant of Windsor. One English interpretation is “from the river that has a winch.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Winsor is a variant of Windsor. One English interpretation is “from the river that has a winch.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Winsor is a variant of Windsor. An origin associated with Windsor is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1919. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Winsor is a variant of Windsor. The history of Windsor gives this family its wider story. Windsor’s naming history includes the use of a family name as a given name.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Winsor through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 53
- 53 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1959. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 160 as a first name in 2020; 2,745 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Winsor
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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