Wynant Explained

Wijnands, Wynants and variants are Dutch patronymic surnames, meaning son of Wijnand (also spelled Wijnant, Winand, and, in Afrikaans, Wynand).^[1] Among more common variant spellings in the Low Countries^[2] are Wijnands (3442 + 108), Wynants (28 + 1985), Wijnants (429 + 1143), Wynant (<5 + 554), Wijnant (38 + 268), and Wijnand (280 + 13). The form Winant is more common in the United States.

Surname

People with these surnames include:

Wijnands

• Ad Wijnands (born 1959), Dutch racing cyclist
• (1945–1993), Dutch botanist

Wijnants

• Jan Wijnants (1632–1684, buried 1684), Dutch painter
• Jan Wijnants (cyclist) (born 1958), Belgian racing cyclist
• Ludwig Wijnants (born 1956), Belgian professional road bicycle racer
• Olaf Wijnants (born 1948), Dutch actor
• Sarah Wijnants (born 1999), Belgian football forward

Winant

• Carmen Winant (born 1983), American writer and visual artist
• Ethel Winant (1922–2003), American casting director and vice-president of CBS
• Howard Winant (born 1946), American sociologist and race theorist
• John Gilbert Winant (1889–1947), American politician
• Scott Winant, American television director and producer
• William Winant (born 1953), American percussionist

Winants

• Luc Winants (born 1963), Belgian chess player

Wynand

• Patrecia Wynand, stagename of Patrecia Scott (1940–1977), American model and actress
• Paul Wynand (1879–1956), German sculptor and medalist

Wynant

• Adam Wynant (born 1977), American boxer
• H. M. Wynant (born 1927), American film and television actor

Wynants

• Dirk Wynants (born 1964), Flemish furniture designer
• Laure Wynants, Belgian epidemiologist
• Maarten Wynants (born 1982), Belgian racing cyclist
• Milton Wynants (born 1972), Uruguayan racing cyclist
• Pierre Wynants (born 1939), Belgian chef

Given name

• Winant Sidle (1916–2005), major general in the United States Army
• Winant Van Winkle (1879–1943), New Jersey politician

See also

• Wynants Kill, a stream in New York named after Wijnant Gerritsen van der Poel (1617–1699)
• Wilbur Wynant House, in Indiana
• Gail Wynand, character in the novel The Fountainhead
• Wijnen, a Dutch surname of similar origin
• Winans (disambiguation), a similar surname

Notes and References

1. http://www.cbgfamilienamen.nl/nfb/detail_naam.php?gba_naam=&nfd_naam=Wijnands+%28y%29&info=aantal+en+verspreiding&operator=eq&taal= Wijnands
2. Numbers given are individuals in the Netherlands in 2007 + in Belgium in 2008.https://familienaam.be