Watwood Surname

433,610th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 793 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Watwood Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Watwood Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States6951:521,52443,542
England811:687,87739,238
Canada151:2,456,373146,130
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426
Wales11:3,094,53244,023
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England271:902,79138,028
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States571:881,03053,642

Watwood Last Name Facts

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

Watwood is more frequently found in The United States than any other country/territory. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Watwood? popularity and diffusion

The surname Watwood is the 433,610th most widely held surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 9,189,844 people. This surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 78 percent of Watwood live; 78 percent live in North America and 78 percent live in Anglo-North America.

It is most frequent in The United States, where it is carried by 695 people, or 1 in 521,524. In The United States it is most prevalent in: Alabama, where 39 percent reside, Georgia, where 9 percent reside and Texas, where 7 percent reside. Not including The United States it is found in 4 countries. It is also found in England, where 10 percent reside and Canada, where 2 percent reside.

Watwood Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Watwood has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname increased 1,219 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it increased 300 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Watwood Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Watwood surname are 23.45% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 70.22% being registered to vote for the political party.

Watwood earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 0.27% more than the national average, earning $43,266 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Wattwood9320/
Watwoods930/
Weastwood881/
Wetwood8641/
Batwood865/
Wotwood861/
Wadwood861/
Bautwood801/
Watwad771/
Botwood71273/
Watwoet7122/
Wattwad711/
Boutwood67139/
Bottwood6751/
Bothwood670/

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Watwood
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