Stroud

Stroud is the 1,534th most common surname in the United States, shared by 22,794 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 13,100.

By the numbers

People: 22,794
Rank: 1,534th
How common: 1 in 13,100
Per 100,000: 7.6

Where the name comes from

The English town is named as La Strode in a document of 1221, though most early records use the spelling Stroud. The Old English name Strōd refers to a "marshy land overgrown with brushwood". The original pronunciation survives in the Kent town of Strood.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.5%
Black, not Hispanic 16.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Stroud

Jonathan Stroud (born 1970)British writer of fantasy fiction
Robert Stroud (1890–1963)American inmate and ornithologist
Elliot Stroud (born 2002)Swedish footballer
Don Stroud (born 1943)American actor

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

Surnames like Stroud

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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.