Wingate

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English

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Wingate

Alternative forms

(surname): Windeatt

Etymology

From Old English wind (“wind”) + ġeat (“gate”).

Proper noun

Wingate (countable and uncountable, plural Wingates)

(uncountable) Any of a number of towns in English-speaking countries:
1. A village and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4037). ^[1]
2. A suburb of Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. ^[2]
3. A number of places in the United States:
  1. A town in Montgomery County, Indiana.
  2. A ghost town in Butler County, Kansas.
  3. An unincorporated community in Dorchester County, Maryland.
  4. An unincorporated community in Cass County, Missouri.
  5. A neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
  6. A town in Union County, North Carolina.
  7. An unincorporated community in Centre County, Pennsylvania.
  8. An unincorporated community in Runnels County, Texas.
(countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

According to the 2010 United States Census, Wingate is the 4242^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8359 individuals. Wingate is most common among White (71.92%) and Black/African American (23.17%) individuals.

References

Further reading

Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wingate”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

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