The Wingo surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,913 people carried this name — #5,845 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 50,000 people counted. That is up 1% from 5,875 in 2000.

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In print

Wingo in American newspapers,
1919.

Newspaper page from Great Falls Daily Tribune carrying the name Wingo
Great Falls Daily Tribune 1919-10-09
Newspaper page from Daily Kennebec Journal carrying the name Wingo
Daily Kennebec Journal 1919-10-09
Newspaper page from Great Falls Daily Tribune carrying the name Wingo
Great Falls Daily Tribune 1919-10-02

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 46,235 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Wingo in Australian newspapers,
1920s–1970s.

55 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Wingo. The most, 34, date from the 1930s.

Articles, by state

Queensland 14
Western Australia 11
New South Wales 9
Victoria 9
South Australia 2
Tasmania 2
ACT (Canberra) 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Wingo.

Who carried it

People named Wingo,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Otis Wingo
    Otis Wingo 1877–1930 · lawyer
  • Effiegene Locke Wingo
    Effiegene Locke Wingo 1883–1962 · politician
  • Ivey Wingo
    Ivey Wingo 1890–1941 · baseball player
  • Plennie L. Wingo
    Plennie L. Wingo 1895–1993 · athletics competitor
  • Ed Wingo 1895–1964 · baseball player
  • Lowdon Wingo 1923–

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Wingo,
in the records of 3 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States347 records

347 records of the Wingo name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 239
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 96
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 8
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 3
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Robert M. Wingo

    Born 1910 in South Carolina. Enlisted 1943 at Fort Jackson Columbia; construction foreman. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1999, buried at Glen Haven Memorial Gardens, Macon, Georgia.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Gerald Thomas Wingo

    U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Born 1935, died 1997; buried at Restland Memorial Park, Dallas, Texas.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Santy Wingo

    Born 1899 in the Philippines. Registered as a foreign national in Los Angeles County, California, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)

Showing 3 of 347 records for Wingo in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Canada1 record

1 record of the Wingo name in Canada Nova Scotia Archives name indexes
  1. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record James Wingo

    Married 1947 in Kentville, Kings, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.

Counts: Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain).

Netherlands1 record

1 record of the Wingo name in the Netherlands Dutch civil registers (births, marriages, deaths)
  1. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Birth record Maria Josepha Wingo

    Born 1901 in Kerkrade.

    Open Archives, Regionaal Historisch Centrum Limburg (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

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