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The LINWOOD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 624 34342 0 2
United States (1880 census) 54 47158 0 1
Change since 1880 +570 +12816 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 78 17692 0 5
United Kingdom 238 14794 0.001 5
Top States for LINWOOD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 158 11373 0.001 8
Illinois 66 21049 0.001 5
Pennsylvania 52 28431 0.000 4
Florida 47 34608 0.000 3
New York 37 49738 0.000 2
Top States for LINWOOD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 158 11373 0.001 8
Montana 5 26515 0.001 6
Illinois 66 21049 0.001 5
Oregon 16 26219 0.000 5
Pennsylvania 52 28431 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of LINWOOD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LINWOOD 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 LINWOOD 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 LINWOOD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 430 68.91
White (Caucasian) 138 22.12
Mixed Race 29 4.65
White (Hispanic) 25 4.01
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of LINWOOD in historical publications

LINWOOD. Parishes, &c., in cos. Lincoln and Hants; also a manufacturing village in Renfrewshire.

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 LINWOOD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LINWOOD.

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 LINWOOD

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