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Hood

in Virginia

There are 1,082 people with the last name "Hood" in Virginia.

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Ranking in Virginia

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Hood 699
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  1. is 695th most common Cain
  2. is 696th most common Drake
  3. is 697th most common Boggs
  4. is 698th most common Henley
  5. is 699th most common Hood
  6. is 700th most common Chung
  7. is 701st most common Staton
  8. is 702nd most common Jensen
  9. is 703rd most common Hinton

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Hood

James, Robert, Thomas, John, Mary, Richard, William, Kenneth, Michael, Patricia

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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