The ELWOOD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,881	6423	0.002	18
United States (1880 census)	1,564	3702	0.003	31
Change since 1880	+3317	-2721	-0.001	-13
Other Countries
Australia	48	26463	0	3
United Kingdom	800	6264	0.002	17

Top States for ELWOOD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	431	6350	0.001	13
Florida	336	5780	0.002	21
New York	273	6994	0.001	14
Ohio	239	5712	0.002	21
Texas	228	7964	0.001	11
Top States for ELWOOD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	88	1213	0.014	145
Delaware	66	2084	0.008	84
Utah	153	1916	0.007	69
Nebraska	114	1841	0.007	67
Iowa	142	2791	0.005	49

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of ELWOOD

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 ELWOOD 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 ELWOOD 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 ELWOOD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	92	1.88
Black/African American	89	1.82
Mixed Race	52	1.07
Native American/Alaskan	45	0.92
Asian/Pacific	19	0.39
White (Caucasian)	4,584	93.92

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

Similar names to ELWOOD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELWOOD.

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.