The Dewinter surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 507 people carried this name — #42,720 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 588,200 people counted. That is up 10% from 461 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Dewinter surname
Literally, “the winter”.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary — entry «de Winter» (Dutch), by Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 329 people named Dewinter live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Flemish Brabant.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 91 people named Dewinter.
4 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 12 départements, most often Nord.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Dewinter.
- Devries 13,600 · U.S. census
- Devrieze 121 · U.S. census
- Dewaele 353 · U.S. census
- Deweerdt 246 · U.S. census
- Dewet 144 · U.S. census
- Dewilde 763 · U.S. census
- Dewit 919 · U.S. census
- Dewitte 1,067 · U.S. census
- Dewolf 2,179 · U.S. census
- Dewulf 369 · U.S. census
- Dewyse 156 · U.S. census
- Dey 4,127 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Dewinter is.
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