Wind Name Origin and Family Crest

Wind is an English surname. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “dweller on the narrow street or passage turning off from the main thoroughfare”.

• It is a topographic name, describing where an early bearer lived.
• The name also appears as Winde.
• The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Wind with 2,308 bearers, at rank 13,233. French civil records give 250 births under the name Wind from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1961–1970.

Wind coat of arms

If a Wind family bore arms, our report explains whose they were and what the blazon shows. Get the complete Wind report, with a museum-style coat of arms.