# Lockwood (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/lockwood/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 19,865 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,806 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 15,542 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.5% (19,386 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Old English loc (“lock; enclosure, fold”) + wudu (“wood”); analysable as lock + wood.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Lockwood in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 87% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 6.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.5% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Lockwood in the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

## People named Lockwood

- Gary Lockwood, American actor
- Roscoe Lockwood, American rower (1875–1960)
- Harold Lockwood, American actor (1887–1918)
- Robert Lockwood Jr., American Delta blues guitarist (1915-2006)
- Will Lockwood, Australian rower
- Patricia Lockwood, American poet, author
- Kurt Lockwood, American pornographic actor, director & model
- Todd Lockwood, American artist
- James B. Lockwood, American arctic explorer (1852–1884)
- Annea Lockwood, American composer (born 1939)
- Alexander Lockwood, american actor (1902-1990)
- Lewis Lockwood, American musicologist

and 1 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Light, Lockett, Leggett, Lozada, Luckett, Liggett, List, Licata, Lizotte, Licht, Leist, Legette.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.