Explore the Family Name Wintermute

The meaning of Wintermute

Americanized form of German Wintermut(h), a variant of Wendemuth, a nickname for an inconstant or fickle person, from Middle High German wenden ‘to turn’ + muot ‘mind’, ‘sense’, later ‘courage’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.

How common is the last name Wintermute in the United States?

The Wintermute surname's popularity, based on the Decennial U.S. Census data, has slightly decreased between 2000 and 2010. In 2000, it ranked as the 30,061st most common name, while by 2010 it had slid to the 32,169th spot, marking a decrease of about 7.01%. The overall count of individuals with the Wintermute surname also declined from 736 in 2000 to 717 in 2010, a reduction of roughly 2.58%. Furthermore, the proportion of people per 100,000 bearing this surname dropped by 11.11% over the same period.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#30,061	#32,169	-7.01%
Count	736	717	-2.58%
Proportion per 100k	0.27	0.24	-11.11%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Wintermute

Regarding the ethnic identity associated with the Wintermute surname, the Decennial U.S. Census data reveals that it is predominantly found within the White community. However, there was a slight shift in this distribution between 2000 and 2010, with the percentage of Wintermutes identifying as White decreasing from 97.01% to 95.4%. Interestingly, there was an increase in the Hispanic representation from 1.49% to 1.95% during the same period. Additionally, those identifying as two or more races rose from 1.22% to 1.39%. Although the 2010 census recorded a small 0.84% of Wintermutes identifying as Asian/Pacific Islander, no such data was available for 2000. There were no identified changes in the Black and American Indian/Alaskan Native populations.

	2000	2010	Change
White	97.01%	95.4%	-1.66%
Hispanic	1.49%	1.95%	30.87%
Two or More Races	1.22%	1.39%	13.93%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0.84%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%