Gatewood
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
/ˈɡeɪtˌwʊd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gatewood is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: habitational name of uncertain origin. There are places called Gate Wood End, South Yorkshire, Gatewood Hill, Hampshire, and Gatewood House Farm, Leicestershire.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)habitational name of uncertain origin. There are places called Gate Wood End, South Yorkshire, Gatewood Hill, Hampshire, and Gatewood House Farm, Leicestershire. The first is named from an Old Norse geyt ‘rushing stream or spring’; the second is from Old English gat ‘goat’; the etymology of the Leicestershire place name is not known. lH3i=SESThe Gatewood family has been established in Essex Co., VA, and Spotsylvania since the 17th century.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gatewood counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 8.4K | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 2 | — |
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; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Charles B. Gatewoodb. 1853USAmerican soldier
- Grandma Gatewoodb. 1887USAmerican walker (1887-1973)
- Ernest Gatewoodb. 1890USAmerican baseball player (1890-1949)
- Lester Gatewoodb. 1921USAmerican football player (1921-1965)
- Aubrey Gatewoodb. 1938USAmerican baseball player
- George David Gatewoodb. 1940USAmerican astronomer
- Charles Gatewoodb. 1942USAmerican photographer (1942-2016)
- Randy Gatewoodb. 1973USAmerican football player
- Yusuf Gatewoodb. 1982USCanadian actor
- Curtis Gatewoodb. 1985USAmerican football player
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.4K | #4,242 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8K | #4,267 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8K | #4,096 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 2 | #180 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Gatewood mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name of uncertain origin. There are places called Gate Wood End, South Yorkshire, Gatewood Hill, Hampshire, and Gatewood House Farm, Leicestershire. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gatewood?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡeɪtˌwʊd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gatewood have the most bearers?
- Gatewood is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Gatewood?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gatewoodThe 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, “Gatewood”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.