Orwood 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 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 1
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 13
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 5
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

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

Orwood Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Orwood family

Profession Census Frequency
Cotton Weaver 4
General Labourer 2
General Labourr 1
House Keeper 1
Machine Rivetter Boiler Works 1
Fish Hawker 1
Scholar 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Orwood

Name Census Frequency
Thomas Orwood 9
Mary Orwood 8
Hannah Orwood 7
John Orwood 7
Elizabeth Orwood 6
Sarah Orwood 6
Alice Orwood 5
James Orwood 5
Robert Orwood 5
Ellen Orwood 4
Jane Orwood 4
Margaret Orwood 4
William Orwood 4
Ann Orwood 2
Annie Orwood 2
Benjamin Orwood 2
George Orwood 2
Henry Orwood 2
Joseph Orwood 2
Rebecca Orwood 2
Eliza Orwood 1
Emma Orwood 1
Esther Orwood 1
Florence Orwood 1
Frances Orwood 1

Orwood Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Erwood 83% 1,293
2 Rowed 33% 531
3 Earwood 71% 174
4 Orwood 100% 126

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The surname Orwood is the 4th most popular variant of Erwood.

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