Smallwood
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Smallwood, Cheshire, ‘narrow wood’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/smɒɫwʊd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Smallwood is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
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)
person from Smallwood, Cheshire, ‘narrow wood’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Smallwood 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 | — | 19K | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4.2K | — |
| ES Spain | — | 34 | — |
| NO Norway | — | 12 | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 5 | — |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Smallwood 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 Smallwood, Cheshire, or dweller by the small wood; first attested William Smalwud 1220 Cur (Ess)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, place in W Yorks., so called from OE smcel narrow (see Small) + sceaga copse (see Shaw). name from a place in Ches., so called from OE smcel nar¬ row (see Small) + wudu Wood. Smart
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, name from a place in Ches., so called from OE smcel narrow (see Small) + wudu Wood.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
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)
- William Smallwoodb. 1732USAmerican politician (1732-1792)
- Gerald Smallwoodb. 1889GBBritish Army general
- Joey Smallwoodb. 1900CACanadian politician (1900-1991)
- Norma Smallwoodb. 1909USAmerican model (1909-1966)
- E. Mary Smallwoodb. 1919GBhistorian and professor of Romano-Jewish History
- Tucker Smallwoodb. 1944USAmerican actor
- Rod Smallwoodb. 1950GBBritish music manager
- Neil Smallwoodb. 1966GBEnglish association football player (born 1966)
- Richard Smallwoodb. 1990GBEnglish association football player
- Samora Smallwoodb. 2000CACanadian 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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 19K | #1,926 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 18K | #1,811 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 18K | #2,008 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 4.2K | #1,915 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 34 | #58,623 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 34 | #57,670 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #51,580 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #63,275 |
| 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 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Smallwood mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Smallwood, Cheshire, ‘narrow wood’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Smallwood?
- A machine transcription gives /smɒɫwʊd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Smallwood have the most bearers?
- Smallwood is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Smallwood?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/smallwoodThe 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, “Smallwood”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.