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winkler Name Meaning and History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived on a corner or occupational name for someone who kept a corner shop or farmed a corner of land, from an agent derivative of Winkel 1. This name is widespread throughout central and eastern Europe, being found for example as a Czech, Polish, Slovenian, and Hungarian name.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The winkler name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the winkler family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of winkler Families in the US in 1920
Number of winkler families
 156-309
 53-155		 1-52
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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