Rosswood Surname

7,593,402nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 6 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Australia

Rosswood Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Rosswood Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States51:72,491,7871,102,614
Australia11:26,995,701270,794

Rosswood Last Name Facts

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

The last name Rosswood is carried by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Rosswood? popularity and diffusion

The last name Rosswood is the 7,593,402nd most commonly held surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 1,214,590,986 people. This last name is predominantly found in The Americas, where 83 percent of Rosswood live; 83 percent live in North America and 83 percent live in Anglo-North America.

This surname is most widely held in The United States, where it is borne by 5 people, or 1 in 72,491,787. In The United States Rosswood is primarily found in: California, where 40 percent are found, Alabama, where 20 percent are found and New York, where 20 percent are found. Excluding The United States this surname occurs in one country. It also occurs in Australia, where 17 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Rosswoods943/
Roswood932/
Resswood881/
Roswod863/
Rozwood8079/
Rushwood751/
Reeswood751/
Rochwood751/
Rashwood751/
Rozwod7194/
Rosboud6715/
Rosboyd671/
Rodswad671/
Rushwod670/

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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 Rosswood
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