# Wood (surname)

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

An English topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a wood.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 250,715 |
| US rank (2010) | 84 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 1,231 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.4% (247,299 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /wʊd/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Wood 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) | 89% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 5.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.8% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Wood in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada and the Kingdom of England.

## People named Wood

- Elijah Wood, American actor (born 1981)
- Natalie Wood, American actress (1938–1981)
- Evan Rachel Wood, American actress (born 1987)
- Grant Wood, American painter (1891–1942)
- Ed Wood, American screenwriter, director, producer, actor, author, and film editor
- Lana Wood, American actress
- Peggy Wood, American actress of stage, film and television (1892-1978)
- Chris Wood, American actor
- Leonard Wood, 5th Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army (1860-1927)
- Robert W. Wood, American physicist and inventor (1868–1955)
- Victoria Wood, British comedian (1953–2016)
- Andrew Wood, American musician and singer (1966–1990)

and 76 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Woody, Woodie, White, Wade, Wyatt, Witt, Waite, Whitt, Watt, Wheat, Witte, Weed.

## 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.