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- ↑ Percy Hide Reaney; Richard Middlewood Wilson (1991). A Dictionary of English Surnames. Taylor & Francis Group. pp. 1784–. ISBN 978-0-415-05737-0 . Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ↑ "Wind Family History". Ancestry.com.
- ↑ "Distribution of the surname Wind in the UK". UK Surname Map.
- ↑ "Wind". Surname Data Base.
- ↑ "Wind Name Meaning, Family History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms". January 2000.
- ↑ "Wind Surname". Forebears.io. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
