as a Last Name
- 27,227
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Greenwood
Meaning & Origins
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a dense forest, from Middle English grene ‘green’ + wode ‘wood’, or a habitational name from a minor place so named, as for example Greenwood in Heathfield, East Sussex.
| 1,315th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 27,227
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Greenwood per capita
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