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    The surname Calderwood

    An English place surname, carried by 1,825 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C436

    Calderwood: #15,922 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Calderwood #15,922, 1,825 people Calderwood: #15,922 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Calderwood #15,922, 1,825 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Calderwood is more common than 90.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the river name Calder + Old English wudu (“wood”).

    Calderwood is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,825 people named Calderwood in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 169,176 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,748.

    #15,922
    rank among US surnames
    1,825
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.4%
    change since 2000 (was #15,404)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,922Hayter1,825169,176
    #15,931Murch1,824169,268

    Who is named Calderwood

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    94% of people named Calderwood identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Catherwood

    Surnames that sound like Calderwood

    Calderwood has the Soundex code C436, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C436.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Calderwood come from?
    From the river name Calder + Old English wudu (“wood”).
    How common is the surname Calderwood?
    1,825 people in the United States had the surname Calderwood in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 169,176 Americans. It ranked 15,922nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Calderwood?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Calderwood identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Calderwood?
    Calderwood is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Calderwood getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,748 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,825 in 2010, up 4.4%.
    What are other spellings of Calderwood?
    Catherwood.