The surname Sherwood
A place surname, carried by 21,384 people in the United States.
Pronounced /ˈʃɝwʊd/ 2 syllables Soundex S630 Also a first name
Origin
From Old English scīr + wudu (“forest”). The first element is either the ancestor of the modern noun shire, or an adjective meaning "bright" (ancestor to the modern word sheer), depending on the specific placename (listed below).
Sherwood is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 21,384 people named Sherwood in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 14,438 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 20,998.
Who is named Sherwood
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
91% of people named Sherwood identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 91%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.9%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Famous Sherwoods
10 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Robert E. SherwoodAmerican writer (1896–1955)
- Billy SherwoodAmerican musician, born 1965
- Grace SherwoodAmerican woman, convicted and posthumously pardoned for witchcraft, 1660–1740
- Mary Martha SherwoodBritish children's author, 1775–1851
- Thomas Kilgore SherwoodAmerican chemical engineer (1903–1976)
- Brad SherwoodAmerican comedian, born 1964
- Ben SherwoodAmerican author, journalist, and entrepreneur, born 1964
- Rosina Emmet SherwoodAmerican painter (1854–1948)
- Don SherwoodAmerican politician (born 1941)
- Kate Brownlee SherwoodAmerican writer (1841–1914)
Notable Sherwoods come mostly from the United States (8) and the Kingdom of Great Britain (1).
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Sherwood has the Soundex code S630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S630.
Questions
- Where does the surname Sherwood come from?
- From Old English scīr + wudu (“forest”). The first element is either the ancestor of the modern noun shire, or an adjective meaning "bright" (ancestor to the modern word sheer), depending on the specific placename (listed below).
- How common is the surname Sherwood?
- 21,384 people in the United States had the surname Sherwood in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,438 Americans. It ranked 1,685th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Sherwood?
- In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Sherwood identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Who is the most famous person named Sherwood?
- Robert E. Sherwood, American writer (1896–1955), followed by Billy Sherwood.
- Where is the surname Sherwood most common?
- Wikidata records people named Sherwood in the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- How do you pronounce Sherwood?
- Sherwood is /ˈʃɝwʊd/, 2 syllables.
- What type of surname is Sherwood?
- Sherwood is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Sherwood getting more or less common?
- More common. 20,998 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,384 in 2010, up 1.8%.
- Is Sherwood also a first name?
- Yes. Sherwood is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.