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The REDWOOD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 804 28049 0 3
United States (1880 census) 212 18460 0 4
Change since 1880 +592 -9589 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 200 7534 0.001 12
United Kingdom 1,202 4504 0.003 26
Top States for REDWOOD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 76 23631 0.000 4
Florida 75 21567 0.000 5
California 59 36111 0.000 2
New Jersey 50 19235 0.001 6
Illinois 47 26970 0.000 4
Top States for REDWOOD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 27 8807 0.001 10
Mississippi 28 7446 0.001 10
Maryland 43 12373 0.001 8
Alaska 5 23281 0.001 8
Delaware 6 22107 0.001 8

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called REDWOOD live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called REDWOOD represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called REDWOOD in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a REDWOOD by picking someone at random in Arkansas than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of REDWOOD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the REDWOOD surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the REDWOOD surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of REDWOOD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 443 55.1
White (Caucasian) 298 37.06
White (Hispanic) 25 3.11
Mixed Race 19 2.36
Native American/Alaskan 10 1.24
Asian/Pacific 9 1.12

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the REDWOOD surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of REDWOOD in historical publications

REDWOOD. Local : place unknown.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to REDWOOD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as REDWOOD.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for REDWOOD

The following words are slight variants of REDWOOD that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.