Weswood Surname
Approximately 5 people bear this surname
Weswood Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 5 | 1:4,875,074 | 116,529 |
Weswood Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Weswood Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Weswood has its highest incidence in England. It can appear as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Weswood.
How Common Is The Last Name Weswood? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 8,193,072nd most numerous family name worldwide, held by around 1 in 1,457,509,183 people. It occurs mostly in The Americas, where 40 percent of Weswood reside; 40 percent reside in North America and 40 percent reside in Anglo-North America.
The last name Weswood is most numerous in England, where it is carried by 2 people, or 1 in 27,859,030. In England Weswood is most numerous in: Tyne and Wear, where 50 percent are found and West Yorkshire, where 50 percent are found. Aside from England Weswood is found in 2 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 40 percent are found and Ghana, where 20 percent are found.
Weswood Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Weswood has changed over time. In England the number of people who held the Weswood last name fell 60 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wetswood | 93 | 4 | / |
| Wedswood | 93 | 0 | / |
| Weywood | 86 | 1 | / |
| Whoswood | 80 | 1 | / |
| Washwood | 80 | 0 | / |
| Besswood | 80 | 0 | / |
| Wywood | 77 | 1 | / |
| Wiwood | 77 | 0 | / |
| Bewood | 77 | 0 | / |
| Wewo | 73 | 322 | / |
| Waywood | 71 | 142 | / |
| Woywood | 71 | 92 | / |
| Woiwood | 71 | 61 | / |
| Waiwood | 71 | 39 | / |
| Weisbod | 71 | 2 | / |
| Hwywood | 71 | 1 | / |
| Besbood | 71 | 1 | / |
| Whiwood | 71 | 0 | / |
| Beywood | 71 | 0 | / |
| Weswa | 67 | 1,541 | / |
| Wychwood | 67 | 8 | / |
| Wesbo | 67 | 8 | / |
| Weuwo | 67 | 4 | / |
| Weiwo | 67 | 3 | / |
| Wewoh | 67 | 2 | / |
| Wezwo | 67 | 2 | / |
| Wiwoo | 67 | 1 | / |
| Wiwod | 67 | 1 | / |
| Weawo | 67 | 1 | / |
| Wishbood | 67 | 1 | / |
| Wewop | 67 | 1 | / |
| Wewot | 67 | 1 | / |
| Beswo | 67 | 0 | / |
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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 Weswood
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis