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Sherwood Name Meaning
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’.Americanized form of some
Jewish name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Sherwood Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sherwood families
 398 - 794  133 - 397 |
 1 - 132  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sherwood families
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364 - 725 122 - 363 |
1 - 121 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sherwood families
|
9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Sherwood Family Origin
Sherwood Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Sherwood
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Sherwood Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Sherwood census records
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