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homewood Name Meaning and History

English (Kent and Sussex): habitational name from any of various places of this name, in particular one in the parish of Perching, Sussex, recorded as Homwood in about 1280; there were others in Chailey and Forest Row in Sussex. All are probably named from Middle English home ‘homestead’, ‘manor’ + wode ‘wood’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of homewood Families in the US in 1920
Number of homewood families
 8-13
 3-7		 1-2
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