The surname Homewood
An English place surname, carried by 567 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex H530
Origin
English origin
Habitational surname from any of various minor places in England, from Old English hām (“homestead”) + wudu (“wood”).
Homewood 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 567 people named Homewood in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 544,525 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 546.
Who is named Homewood
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Homewood identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 1.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Homewood
Homewood has the Soundex code H530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H530.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Homewood come from?
- Habitational surname from any of various minor places in England, from Old English hām (“homestead”) + wudu (“wood”).
- How common is the surname Homewood?
- 567 people in the United States had the surname Homewood in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 544,525 Americans. It ranked 38,902nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Homewood?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Homewood identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- What type of surname is Homewood?
- Homewood is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Homewood getting more or less common?
- More common. 546 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 567 in 2010, up 3.8%.