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The NORTHWOOD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 134 119644 0 0
United States (1880 census) 51 49013 0 1
Change since 1880 +83 -70631 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 135 10920 0.001 8
United Kingdom 711 6833 0.002 15
Top States for NORTHWOOD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 26 72486 0.000 1
Maryland 11 40493 0.000 2
Wisconsin 11 57062 0.000 2
Massachusetts 10 61592 0.000 2
New York 10 139580 0.000 1
Top States for NORTHWOOD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 8 15947 0.001 10
Maryland 11 40493 0.000 2
Wisconsin 11 57062 0.000 2
Nevada 4 51907 0.000 2
Massachusetts 10 61592 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of NORTHWOOD

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 NORTHWOOD 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 NORTHWOOD 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 NORTHWOOD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 119 88.81
Black/African American 12 8.96
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of NORTHWOOD in historical publications

NORTHWOOD. A parish in the Isle of Wight, and a township in co. Salop.

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 NORTHWOOD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NORTHWOOD.

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 NORTHWOOD

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