Underwood Family History
Underwood Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived near
or in a wood, from Middle English under + wude,
wode ‘wood’, or a habitational name from any of various places
so named, for example in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and the former
county of Ayrshire (from Old English under + wudu).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Underwood Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Underwood families
 236 - 470  79 - 235 |
 1 - 78  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Underwood families
|
710 - 1,418 237 - 709 |
1 - 236 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Underwood families
|
26 - 49 9 - 25 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Underwood Family Origin
Underwood Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Underwood
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Underwood Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Underwood census records
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