Family name origins & meanings
- English : topographic name for someone who lived near a pathway, alleyway, or road, Old English (ge)wind (from windan ‘to go’).
- English, German, and Danish : nickname for a swift runner, from Middle English wind ‘wind’, Middle High German wint ‘wind’, also ‘greyhound’.
- German : variant of Wendt.
- Swedish : ornamental name from vind ‘wind’, or a habitational name from a place named with this element.