The English surname Windsor, also found in Ireland, is an habitational name from Windsor in Berkshire, Broadwindsor in Dorset, or Winsor in Devon and Hampshire, all named from the Old English terms windels meaning “windlass” and  ora meaning “bank.” The first recorded occurrence of the name is Godfrey de Windesorin the Domesday Book of Hampshire in 1066. The name is first recorded in the New World in 1631 when Robert Windsor arrived in Boston, Massachusetts. Today there are approximately 8,000 bearers of the name Windsor living in the United States.