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The HAYWOOD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,485 1884 0.006 65
United States (1880 census) 4,994 1228 0.01 100
Change since 1880 +12491 -656 -0.004 -35
Other Countries
Australia 1,264 1313 0.008 77
United Kingdom 8,013 763 0.017 174
Top States for HAYWOOD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,548 1749 0.007 74
North Carolina 1,483 897 0.018 184
California 1,213 2884 0.004 36
Michigan 1,053 1130 0.011 106
Illinois 1,007 1386 0.008 81
Top States for HAYWOOD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,483 897 0.018 184
Alabama 613 1318 0.014 138
Tennessee 604 1569 0.011 106
Michigan 1,053 1130 0.011 106
Georgia 779 1512 0.010 95

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

Classification and Origin of HAYWOOD

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 HAYWOOD 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 HAYWOOD 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 HAYWOOD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 336 1.92
White (Hispanic) 282 1.61
Native American/Alaskan 79 0.45
Asian/Pacific 54 0.31
Black/African American 8,452 48.34
White (Caucasian) 8,284 47.38

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

Meaning of HAYWOOD in historical publications

HAYWOOD. See Heywood. Also a liberty in co. Hereford, and a hamlet in co.

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 HAYWOOD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HAYWOOD.

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 HAYWOOD

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