Hood

Hood is the 628th most common surname in the United States, shared by 52,395 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,705.

By the numbers

People: 52,395
Rank: 628th
How common: 1 in 5,705
Per 100,000: 17.5

Where the name comes from

As an English and Scottish surname, from the noun hood.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.5%
Black, not Hispanic 19.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Hood

Thomas Hood (1799–1845)British writer;
Gavin Hood (born 1963)South African filmmaker
Ace Hood (born 1988)American rapper from Florida
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724–1816)British Admiral known particularly for his service in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary Wars
Rodney Hood (born 1992)American basketball player
Raymond Hood (1881–1934)American architect
Mariano Hood (born 1973)Argentine tennis player
Darla Hood (1931–1979)American actress

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

Surnames like Hood

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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.