Eastwood
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Eastwood, the name of numerous places in England, mainly ‘eastern wood’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/iːstwʊd/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Eastwood is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 17K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 17Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 347 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)person from Eastwood, the name of numerous places in England, mainly ‘eastern wood’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Eastwood counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Eastwood | 224 |
| US United States | 5,247 | 1 in 63K | 5.2K | Eastwood | 347 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Eastwood | 143 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Eastwood | 105 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Eastwood | 35 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Eastwood | 69 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Eastwood is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from a place named Eastwood or from residence east of a wood; first attested Adam dè Estwde 1221 ElyA (Cambridgeshire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, places so called. Most, such as the one in Essex, get the name from OE east East + wudu Wood, but an example in Notts, originally had as its final element ON dveit mea¬ dow (see Thwaite).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Irish, Though this English locative name is now almost exclusively found in Ulster earlier references to it in Irish records nearly all relate to Dublin and Louth. There are a number of them in the seventeenth century but it was not established in Ireland before that
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Alice Eastwoodb. 1859CACanadian American botanist (1859-1953)
- Clint Eastwoodb. 1930USAmerican actor and film director (born 1930)
- Sondra Lockeb. 1944USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1944–2018)
- Jayne Eastwoodb. 1946CACanadian actress
- Dina Eastwoodb. 1965USAmerican news anchor
- Kyle Eastwoodb. 1968USAmerican jazz bassist and composer
- Alison Eastwoodb. 1972USAmerican actress
- Scott Eastwoodb. 1986USAmerican actor (born 1986)
- Francesca Eastwoodb. 1993USAmerican actress
- Morgan Eastwoodb. 1996USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.2K | #6,470 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.1K | #6,170 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5K | #6,488 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Eastwood mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Eastwood, the name of numerous places in England, mainly ‘eastern wood’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Eastwood?
- In English /iːstwʊd/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Eastwood have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.7 thousand people named Eastwood in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eastwood.
- How common is the name Eastwood?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,247 people named Eastwood in 2010, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eastwoodThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eastwood”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.