Entry № 11540 · English origin

Winchester Winchester — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WIN-ches-ter /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Roman fortress (Winchester Cathedral; Sam and Dean of Supernatural)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (English)

A name that means "roman fortress (winchester cathedral; sam and dean of supernatural)".

Winchester is from the Old English Wintan-ceaster — Roman fortress; the historic English cathedral city in Hampshire. The Winchester Geese — historical London prostitutes.

and American supernatural TV.

Roman fortress (Winchester Cathedral; Sam and Dean of Supernatural) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Winchester
Transliteration
Winchester
Pronunciation
/ ˈwɪn.tʃɛs.tər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Winchester stands.

Winchester does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Winchesters before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sam + Dean Winchester
The CW's Supernatural.
2005
Winchester
Anglo-Saxon Wessex capital.

Names connected to Winchester.

The number behind Winchester.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Winchester reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.