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First name origin & meaning:

Welsh: Fair

First name variations: Wyn, Wynnie, Winnie, Winny, Win, Winn, Weeny, Wyonna, Wynn

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: variant spelling of Wynn.
  2. Welsh: variant of Gwynn.
  3. 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.