Underwood
Underwood is the 607th most common surname in the United States, shared by 54,083 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,527.
By the numbers
- People
- 54,083
- Rank
- 607th
- How common
- 1 in 5,527
- Per 100,000
- 18.1
Where the name comes from
Origin Middle English
The name is from England or Scotland, and from Middle English. The surname is sometimes habitational, used by someone who lived in any of several places of the same name. Otherwise it is topographic, referring to someone who lived near a wood. The common noun comes from the name of the manufacturer, after John T. Underwood, one of its founders.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Underwood described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Underwood
- Carrie Underwood (born 1983)American singer and actor
- Blair Underwood (born 1964)American actor
- Sam Underwood (born 1987)British actor
- Ron Underwood (born 1953)American director, screenwriter, and producer
- Matthew Underwood (born 1990)American actor
- Lauren Underwood (born 1986)U.S. Representative from Illinois
- George Underwood (1884–1943)athletics competitor
- Ian Underwood (born 1939)American musician
People named Underwood with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Underwood
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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.