Woodward

35,266 people in the United States were counted with the surname Woodward in the 2020 census, making it the 978th most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,476.

By the numbers

People: 35,266
Rank: 978th
How common: 1 in 8,476
Per 100,000: 11.8

Where the name comes from

Occupational surname from woodward.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.6%
Black, not Hispanic 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Woodward

Joanne Woodward (born 1930)American actress
Robert Burns Woodward (1917–1979)American chemist
Bob Woodward (born 1943)American investigative journalist
Edward Woodward (1930–2009)British actor
Vivian Woodward (1879–1954)English footballer
Shannon Woodward (born 1984)American actress
Arthur Smith Woodward (1864–1944)English paleontologist
Morgan Woodward (1925–2019)American actor

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

Surnames like Woodward

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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.