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Origin Of The Surname Sherwood
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Meaning Of The Surname Sherwood
From the Cultivated Wood
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Interesting
Facts About
Sherwood
Sherwood is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain, especially from the famous Sherwood Forest. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English ‘scir’ and ‘wodu’ combined to refer to cultivated woodland. |
Sherwood Statistics
Sherwood is the number 1458 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 6,629 share the surname Sherwood in the UK.
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