as a Last Name
- 8,658
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Gatewood
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name of uncertain origin. There are places called Gate Wood End, South Yorkshire, Gatewood Hill, Hampshire, and Gatewood House Farm, Leicestershire. The first is named from an Old Norse geyt ‘rushing stream or spring’; the second is from Old English gāt ‘goat’; the etymology of the Leicestershire place name is not known.
| 4,139th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,658
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Gatewood per capita
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