Asherwood Surname

4,908,606th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 16 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Jamaica
Highest density in:
Jamaica

Asherwood Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Asherwood Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Jamaica91:318,8838,136
South Africa31:18,059,235248,362
England21:27,859,030389,889
Wales11:3,094,53244,023
Zambia11:15,849,92253,989
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England31:8,125,123158,686
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States111:4,565,335193,764

Asherwood Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Asherwood Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Asherwood is more commonly found in Jamaica than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of Asherwood click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Asherwood? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 4,908,606th most frequently used surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 455,471,620 people. The last name Asherwood occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 56 percent of Asherwood live; 56 percent live in Caribbean and 56 percent live in Anglo-Caribbean.

The surname Asherwood is most frequent in Jamaica, where it is borne by 9 people, or 1 in 318,883. In Jamaica Asherwood is mostly concentrated in: Cornwall County, where 100 percent are found. Excluding Jamaica this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in South Africa, where 19 percent are found and England, where 13 percent are found.

Asherwood Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Asherwood has changed through the years. In England the number of people who held the Asherwood last name contracted 33 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Esherwood8962/
Osherwood890/
Essherwood841/
Asheerwad781/
Houserwood741/
Ashirwad7160/
Ashirwadh674/
Asarwad632/
Asirwad631/
Ashirvad5930/
Ashirbad596/
Asserbad591/
Aservaad591/
Aashirvad565/
Asirvad507/
Asirbad504/
Azerbad503/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Asherwood
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