The surname Hopwood
An English place surname, carried by 2,875 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex H130
Origin
English origin
From Old English hop (“valley among hills”) + wudu (“wood”).
Hopwood 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 2,875 people named Hopwood in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 107,390 Americans. That is up 6.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,696.
#11,057
rank among US surnames
2,875
people in 2010
1.0
per 100,000 Americans
+6.6%
change since 2000 (was #10,851)
Who is named Hopwood
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
84% of people named Hopwood identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 84%
- Black (not Hispanic) 8.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
- Two or more races 2.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Hopwood come from?
- From Old English hop (“valley among hills”) + wudu (“wood”).
- How common is the surname Hopwood?
- 2,875 people in the United States had the surname Hopwood in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 107,390 Americans. It ranked 11,057th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hopwood?
- In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Hopwood identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Hopwood?
- Hopwood is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Hopwood getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,696 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,875 in 2010, up 6.6%.