The history of your name

The UNDERWOOD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 55,973 535 0.021 208
United States (1880 census) 13,166 451 0.026 263
Change since 1880 +42807 -84 -0.005 -55
Other Countries
Australia 1,849 882 0.011 113
United Kingdom 9,737 613 0.021 212
Top States for UNDERWOOD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 4,061 633 0.019 195
California 3,542 924 0.010 105
Tennessee 3,268 240 0.057 574
Florida 3,106 641 0.019 194
Georgia 3,039 322 0.037 371
Top States for UNDERWOOD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 2,852 232 0.064 641
West Virginia 1,110 207 0.061 614
Tennessee 3,268 240 0.057 574
Oklahoma 1,574 257 0.046 456
Kentucky 1,828 316 0.045 452

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

Classification and Origin of UNDERWOOD

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 UNDERWOOD 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 UNDERWOOD 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 UNDERWOOD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 907 1.62
White (Hispanic) 806 1.44
Native American/Alaskan 599 1.07
Asian/Pacific 207 0.37
White (Caucasian) 45,338 81
Black/African American 8,110 14.49

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

Meaning of UNDERWOOD in historical publications

UNDERWOOD. A township in Derbyshire. In H.R. it is latinized Sub-Bosco.

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 UNDERWOOD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as UNDERWOOD.

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 UNDERWOOD

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