Sherwood Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 27
Berkshire 173
Cambridgeshire 10
Channel Islands 1
Cheshire 38
Cornwall 1
Cumberland 16
Derbyshire 20
Devon 31
Dorset 52
Durham 119
Essex 51
Gloucestershire 54
Hampshire 122
Herefordshire 21
Hertfordshire 49
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 2
Kent 177
Lancashire 366
Leicestershire 22
Lincolnshire 36
London 574
Middlesex 69
Northumberland 29
Norfolk 80
Northamptonshire 92
Nottinghamshire 43
Oxfordshire 57
Rutland 0
Shropshire 29
Suffolk 37
Somerset 15
Surrey 120
Sussex 123
Staffordshire 191
Warwickshire 77
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 55
Worcestershire 169
Yorkshire 695

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 4
Cardiganshire 1
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 55
Merionethshire 1
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 7
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 7

Sherwood Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Sherwood family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 664
General Labourer 69
Agricultural Labourer 60
Coal Miner 38
Domestic Servant 32
Labourer 29
Farmer 27
Dress Maker 24
Living On Own Means 24
General Servant Domestic 23
Living On Her Own Means 22
General Servant 20
Farm Labourer 18
Butcher 17
Cotton Weaver 14
General Domestic Servant 13
Blacksmith 13
Carpenter 12
Gardener 12
House Keeper 12
Laundress 11
Cook Domestic Servant 11
Ag Labourer 11
Cook 10
File Cutter 10

Most Frequent Forenames for Sherwood

Name Census Frequency
William Sherwood 1,857
Mary Sherwood 1,752
John Sherwood 1,505
Elizabeth Sherwood 1,177
George Sherwood 1,058
Sarah Sherwood 889
Thomas Sherwood 877
James Sherwood 807
Ann Sherwood 631
Henry Sherwood 623
Jane Sherwood 573
Charles Sherwood 554
Robert Sherwood 484
Joseph Sherwood 460
Eliza Sherwood 445
Annie Sherwood 438
Emma Sherwood 388
Alice Sherwood 385
Edward Sherwood 360
Ellen Sherwood 351
Arthur Sherwood 337
Frederick Sherwood 321
Emily Sherwood 298
Alfred Sherwood 286
Richard Sherwood 277

Sherwood Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Sherwood 100% 27,782
2 Isherwood 89% 23,105
3 Usherwood 89% 2,277
4 Sharwood 88% 1,963
5 Shearwood 89% 1,432
6 Sheerwood 89% 237
7 Asherwood 89% 195

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The surname Sherwood is the most popular version of all its varients

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