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The winston Surname

winston Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from an Old English personal name composed of the elements wynn ‘joy’ + stan ‘stone’.
  2. English: habitational name from any of various places called Winston or Winstone, from various Old English personal names + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, or, in the case of Winstone in Gloucestershire, Old English stan ‘stone’.
  3. Americanized form of Jewish Weinstein.

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

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Distribution of winston Families in the US in 1920
Number of winston families
 215-427
 72-214		 1-71
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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