Wood

Wood is the 91st most common surname in the United States, shared by 238,948 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,251.

By the numbers

People: 238,948
Rank: 91st
How common: 1 in 1,251
Per 100,000: 79.9

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.6%
Black, not Hispanic 5.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Wood

Elijah Wood (born 1981)American actor
Natalie Wood (1938–1981)American actress
Evan Rachel Wood (born 1987)American actress
Grant Wood (1891–1942)American painter
Chris Wood (born 1991)New Zealand association football player
Ed Wood (1924–1978)American screenwriter, director, producer, actor, author, and film editor
Ronnie Wood (born 1947)British rock guitarist, member of The Rolling Stones
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881–1959)British politician

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

Surnames like Wood

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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.