The Winckler surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 901 people carried this name — #26,932 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 322,600 people counted. That is up 8% from 837 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 259 people named Winckler.
21 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 33 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 114 people named Winckler live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Chubut.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
43 people named Winckler live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Fribourg.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
50 people named Winckler is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Winckler,
with a public archive behind them.
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Georg Winckler 1582–1654 · merchant -
Georg Winckler d. 1576 · teacher
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Daniel Winckler 1599–1658 · physician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Winckler.
- Wils 197 · U.S. census
- Wilson 801,882 · U.S. census
- Wilt 8,165 · U.S. census
- Wiltgen 579 · U.S. census
- Wiltzius 277 · U.S. census
- Wimmer 6,334 · U.S. census
- Wind 2,308 · U.S. census
- Windels 190 · U.S. census
- Windstein 113 · U.S. census
- Wine 4,327 · U.S. census
- Wingert 3,383 · U.S. census
- Wingerter 1,328 · U.S. census
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