Norwood

Norwood is the 1,633rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 21,360 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,000.

By the numbers

People: 21,360
Rank: 1,633rd
How common: 1 in 14,000
Per 100,000: 7.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a place name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 50.2%
Black, not Hispanic 40.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Norwood

Brandy Norwood (born 1979)American singer, songwriter and actress
Oliver Norwood (born 1991)Northern Irish footballer
Vernon Norwood (born 1992)American sprinter
Melita Norwood (1912–2005)British civil servant and spy for the Soviet Union
Virginia Norwood (1927–2023)American aerospace engineer, inventor, and physicist

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

Surnames like Norwood

Also a first name

Norwood has been given to 2,909 American babies as a first name since 1883, peaking in 1921. 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.