English: variant spelling of Wynn.Welsh: variant of
Gwynn.Irish (Connacht): adopted as an English equivalent
of Gaelic Ó Gaoithin ‘descendant of Gaoithín’ (see
Gahan), because Gaelic gaoth also means ‘wind’, and the
English surname Wynne was taken as being related to the English
vocabulary word wind.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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