First name origins & meanings:
- Teutonic: Valiant protector
- Old English: From the friend's hill
- English: Friend
First name variations: Wil, Will, Willem, Wilhelm, Wilmos, Wilmot, Wilson, Williams, Williamson, Wills, Willie, Willy, Wiley, Wyley, Wilkie, Willkie, Wilkes, Wylkes, Willis, Wilton, Wilmer, Wilmar, Willard, Wilford, Guillaume, Guillermo, Vilhelm, Vilem, Viliam, Vasili, Vasily, Uilleam, Uilliam, William, Winchell, Windsor, Winfield, Winfred, Wingate, Winthrop, Wynton, Winward, Winfrey, Winslow, Wynton
Last name origin & meaning:
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 tūn ‘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’.