Frequency: (142)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Dutch: 1. from Middle Dutch wint ‘wind’ + the definite article de, hence possibly a nickname for a fast runner. 2. ethnic name for a Wend, a member of a Slavic people.
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