Sherwood
20,857 people in the United States were counted with the surname Sherwood in the 2020 census, making it the 1,686th most common in the country. That is about one person in 14,300.
By the numbers
- People
- 20,857
- Rank
- 1,686th
- How common
- 1 in 14,300
- Per 100,000
- 7.0
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
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).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Sherwood described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Sherwood
- Dominic Sherwood (born 1990)English actor
- Tim Sherwood (born 1969)English footballer and manager
- Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)American writer
- Billy Sherwood (born 1965)American musician
- Grace Sherwood (1660–1740)American woman, convicted and posthumously pardoned for witchcraft
- Sheila Sherwood (born 1945)English long jumper
- Mary Martha Sherwood (1775–1851)British children's author
- Madeleine Sherwood (1922–2016)Canadian actress
People named Sherwood with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Sherwood
Also a first name
Sherwood has been given to 5,682 American babies as a first name since 1891, peaking in 1938. 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.