The winton Surname
winton Name Meaning and History
Scottish and English: habitational name from any of various places
called Winton. Those near Edinburgh and in North Yorkshire are named
from the Old English byname or personal name Wine (meaning
‘friend’) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; one
in former Westmorland (now Cumbria) probably has as its first element
an Old English winn ‘pasture’; and one in Lancashire has Old
English wiðigen ‘growing with willows’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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