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The sherwood Surname

sherwood Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from a place in Nottinghamshire, around which once stood the famous Sherwood Forest. The place is so called from Old English scir ‘shire’ or scir ‘bright’ + wudu ‘wood’.
  2. Americanized form of some Jewish name.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of sherwood Families in the US in 1920
Number of sherwood families
 398-794
 133-397		 1-132
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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