Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German wīn, German Wein ‘wine’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a wine merchant or producer, or perhaps for a tavern keeper. As a Jewish name it may also be of ornamental origin.
- German : from a short form of any of the various Germanic compound personal names beginning with the element wini ‘friend’, such as Winifrid or Winimar.
- German : altered spelling of Wien.