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The NORWOOD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 21,678 1520 0.008 80
United States (1880 census) 4,811 1299 0.01 96
Change since 1880 +16867 -221 -0.002 -16
Other Countries
Australia 290 5361 0.002 18
United Kingdom 1,711 3361 0.004 37
Top States for NORWOOD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 2,381 1138 0.011 114
California 1,548 2189 0.005 46
North Carolina 1,492 846 0.019 185
Alabama 1,353 595 0.030 304
Tennessee 1,311 728 0.023 230
Top States for NORWOOD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 1,098 415 0.039 386
Alabama 1,353 595 0.030 304
Arkansas 640 589 0.024 239
Tennessee 1,311 728 0.023 230
Delaware 176 821 0.022 225

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

Classification and Origin of NORWOOD

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 NORWOOD 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 NORWOOD 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 NORWOOD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 410 1.89
White (Hispanic) 349 1.61
Native American/Alaskan 143 0.66
Asian/Pacific 65 0.3
White (Caucasian) 12,020 55.45
Black/African American 8,691 40.09

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

Meaning of NORWOOD in historical publications

NORWOOD. Places in Middlesex, Surrey, &c.

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 NORWOOD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NORWOOD.

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 NORWOOD

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