Haywood

At the 2020 census, 17,659 Americans bore the surname Haywood — 1,997th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 16,900.

By the numbers

People: 17,659
Rank: 1,997th
How common: 1 in 16,900
Per 100,000: 5.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English ġehæg (“fence, enclosure”) + wudu (“wood”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Haywood described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 47.6%
White, not Hispanic 42.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Haywood

Eliza Haywood (1693–1757)British actor and writer (1693-1756), editor
Brendan Haywood (born 1979)American basketball player
Spencer Haywood (born 1949)American basketball player
Hurley Haywood (born 1948)American racecar driver
Kate Haywood (born 1987)British swimmer, Olympic athlete, world championships silver medallist
Nigel Haywood (born 1955)British diplomat
Chris Haywood (born 1948)Australian actor
Dave Haywood (born 1982)American musician

People named Haywood with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Haywood

Also a first name

Haywood has been given to 6,541 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1919. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.