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The elwood Surname

elwood Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire, which is probably named from Old English ellern ‘elder tree’ + wudu ‘wood’.
  2. from the Old English personal name Ælfweald, composed of the elements ælf ‘elf’ + weald ‘rule’. In the British Isles this spelling is now found predominantly in northern Ireland.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The elwood name in History

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Distribution of elwood Families in the US in 1920
Number of elwood families
 60-118
 21-59		 1-20
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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