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winthrop Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from places in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire called Winthorpe. The former is named with the Old English personal name or byname Wine, meaning ‘friend’, + Old Norse þorp ‘settlement’. In the latter the first element is a contracted form of the Old English personal name Wigmund, composed of the elements wig ‘war’ + mund ‘protection’, or the Old Norse equivalent, Vígmundr.

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

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

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Distribution of winthrop Families in the US in 1920
Number of winthrop families
 15-27
 6-14		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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