Harewood
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 'person from Harwood', a place-name in England or Scotland, variously meaning 'grey wood' or 'wood frequented by hares'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hɛɹwʊd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Harewood is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- TTTrinidad & Tobago
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
'person from Harwood', a place-name in England or Scotland, variously meaning 'grey wood' or 'wood frequented by hares'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Harewood 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, stained sycamore maple wood, used in cabinet making
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Earl of, English title
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, village, England
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Richard A. Harewoodb. 1900USAmerican lawyer, politician, and judge (1900-1985)
- Adrian Harewoodb. 1901CACanadian television and radio journalist, and news anchor
- Al Harewoodb. 1923USAmerican jazz drummer (1923-2014)
- Dorian Harewoodb. 1950USAmerican actor (born 1950)
- Nancy Harewoodb. 1950USAmerican film actress
- David Harewoodb. 1965GBBritish actor
- Marlon Harewoodb. 1979GBBritish footballer (born 1979)
- Ramon Harewoodb. 1987BBAmerican football player
- Raylene HarewoodCACanadian 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)
Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,379 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #24,934 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,501 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 33 | #592 |
| BB Barbados | Barbados — Electoral register, deceased-voters slice | 2025 | 21 | #19 |
| BB Barbados | Barbados — Electoral register, overseas-voters slice | 2025 | 20 | #18 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 11 | #62,135 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 5 | #257 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #144,022 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Harewood mean, and where does it come from?
- 'person from Harwood', a place-name in England or Scotland, variously meaning 'grey wood' or 'wood frequented by hares' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Harewood?
- A machine transcription gives /hɛɹwʊd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Harewood have the most bearers?
- Harewood is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Harewood”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.