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Hood

in Pennsylvania

There are 1,197 people with the last name "Hood" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

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Hood 891
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  1. is 887th most common Gerhart
  2. is 888th most common Liu
  3. is 889th most common Greer
  4. is 890th most common Noble
  5. is 891st most common Hood
  6. is 892nd most common Singleton
  7. is 893rd most common Whalen
  8. is 894th most common Calhoun
  9. is 895th most common Kaplan

Similar Names and Nicknames

Hodge, Hough, Hogg, Hoag, Hogge, Houde, Houge, Hoog, Hoodie, Hoodenpyle

Most Common First Names for Hood

James, John, Richard, William, Robert, David, Michael, Thomas, Brian, Janet

Meaning & History

English and Scottish: metonymic occupational name for a maker of hoods or a nickname for someone who wore a distinctive hood, from Middle English hod(de), hood, hud ‘hood’. Some early examples with prepositions seem to be topographic names, referring to a place where there was a hood-shaped hill or a natural shelter or overhang, providing protection from the elements. In some cases the name may be habitational, from places called Hood, in Devon (possibly ‘hoodshaped hill’) and North Yorkshire (possibly ‘shelter’ or ‘fortification’).

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUid ‘descendant of Ud’, a personal name of uncertain derivation. This was the name of an Ulster family who were bards to the O’Neills of Clandeboy. It was later altered to Mac hUid. Compare Mahood.

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