Horewood Surname

2,843,861st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 47 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Australia
Highest density in:
Australia

Horewood Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Horewood Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Australia461:586,86342,409
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England71:3,482,19689,582
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States51:10,043,737422,899

Horewood Last Name Facts

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

Horewood occurs more in Australia more than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Horewood? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 2,843,861st most frequent surname internationally It is held by around 1 in 155,054,168 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 98 percent of Horewood live; 98 percent live in Australasia and 98 percent live in Australia and New Zealand.

The surname is most frequently occurring in Australia, where it is carried by 46 people, or 1 in 586,863. In Australia Horewood is mostly concentrated in: South Australia, where 78 percent reside and Victoria, where 22 percent reside. Beside Australia it is found in one country. It is also common in The United States, where 2 percent reside.

Horewood Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Horewood has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Horewood last name fell 80 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Harewood885,087/
Herewood8818/
Gorewood881/
Hargewood825/
Harrewood821/
Harewoo802/
Orewo7740/
Garewood753/
Oresswod752/
Hariwood751/
Harawood750/
Harywood750/
Harrawood71244/
Oriewo7118/
Orhewo7111/
Oreawo719/
Harrowood710/
Horevoi67655/
Orechwo67136/
Arowood6756/
Chorewa672/
Harewad671/
Jorewad671/

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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 Horewood
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