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Origin Displayed: Welsh

Spelling variations of this family name include: Wynne, Wynn, Wyn, Win, Gwynne, Gwynn, Winne, Winn, Gwinn, Gwinne and many more.

First found in Carnarvonshire (Welsh: Sir Gaernarfon), a former county in Northwest Wales, anciently part of the Kingdom of Gwynedd, and today divided between the unitary authorities of Gwynedd and Conwy, where they held a family seat from very ancient times.

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Thomas Wynne and his wife Catherine settled in Plymouth in 1620; the same year as the "Mayflower"; Ed Winn settled in North Carolina in 1701; Thomas Winn settled in Maryland in 1682 with his wife and two daughters.

(Above is a small excerpt from our 1800 word history)


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Some noteworthy people of the name Wynne
  • Robert Wynne (1851-1922), American government administrator, Postmaster General (1904-1905)
  • Arthur Wynne (1862-1945), British-born American editor, invented the crossword puzzle in 1913
  • David Wynne (1900-1983), Welsh composer
  • Ellis Wynne (1671-1734), a Welsh clergyman and author
  • Emanuel Wynne, French pirate of the 1700s, and was the first pirate to fly the Jolly Roger
  • Frank Wynne (b. 1962), an Irish literary translator and writer
  • Greville Maynard Wynne (1919-1990), a British spy
  • Owen Edgar Wynne (1919-1975), a South African cricketer

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