as a Last Name
- 244,505
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Wood
Meaning & Origins
English and Scottish: 1. mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood or a metonymic occupational name for a woodcutter or forester, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu). 2. nickname for a mad, eccentric, or violent person, from Middle English wōd ‘mad’, ‘frenzied’ (Old English wād), as in Adam le Wode, Worcestershire 1221.
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Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 244,505
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Guam
- has the most people named Wood per capita
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