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The surname Millwood

A surname, carried by 2,496 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M430

Millwood: #12,444 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Millwood #12,444, 2,496 people Millwood: #12,444 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Millwood #12,444, 2,496 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Millwood is more common than 92.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,496 people named Millwood in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 123,696 Americans. That is up 8.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,302.

#12,444
rank among US surnames
2,496
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+8.4%
change since 2000 (was #12,377)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#12,435Wittenberg2,498123,597
#12,440Tobler2,497123,647
#12,444Cournoyer2,496123,696
#12,447Coady2,494123,795
#12,452Karlin2,493123,845

Who is named Millwood

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

88% of people named Millwood identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 88%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 8.0%
  • Two or more races 2.1%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Millwood

Millwood has the Soundex code M430, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M430.

Questions

How common is the surname Millwood?
2,496 people in the United States had the surname Millwood in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 123,696 Americans. It ranked 12,444th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Millwood?
In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Millwood identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Millwood getting more or less common?
More common. 2,302 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,496 in 2010, up 8.4%.