Popularity of the last name by country

United States

• California (18,131)
• Missouri (14,771)
• Virginia (14,108)
• Massachusetts (12,371)
• Illinois (9,229)
• New York (8,860)
• Pennsylvania (7,933)
• Kentucky (7,901)
• Ohio (6,189)
• Tennessee (5,290)
• Indiana (5,110)
• Colorado (5,069)
• Maryland (4,828)
• North Carolina (4,795)
• Texas (4,138)
• Michigan (3,987)
• West Virginia (3,149)
• Iowa (2,784)
• Arkansas (2,424)
• Kansas (2,231)
• Alabama (2,044)
• New Jersey (2,010)
• Washington (1,959)
• Mississippi (1,827)
• Georgia (1,810)
• Connecticut (1,732)
• South Carolina (1,729)
• New Hampshire (1,624)
• Vermont (1,617)
• Maine (1,557)
• Oklahoma (1,554)
• Nebraska (1,479)
• Utah (1,454)
• Louisiana (1,393)
• Arizona (1,373)
• Minnesota (1,136)
• Montana (1,092)
• Florida (1,000)
• Oregon (930)
• Idaho (740)
• Wisconsin (735)
• North Dakota (616)
• South Dakota (510)
• New Mexico (392)
• Hawaii (357)
• Wyoming (324)
• Nevada (283)
• Rhode Island (205)
• Delaware (124)
• Alaska (84)

All countries

• United Kingdom (217,393)
• United States (168,949)
• Ireland (51,532)
• Australia (15,753)
• New Zealand (8,467)
• Canada (5,720)
• France (2,839)
• Unknown country (2,828)
• Netherlands (604)
• Germany (518)
• Switzerland (455)
• Belgium (385)
• Italy (275)
• Mexico (220)
• China (162)
• India (158)
• Colombia (146)
• Argentina (141)
• Spain (117)
• Turkey (105)
• Denmark (95)
• South Africa (78)
• Brazil (70)
• Paraguay (62)
• Russian Federation (61)
• Sweden (60)
• Egypt (58)
• Peru (58)
• Austria (53)
• Norway (53)
• Portugal (50)
• Greece (46)
• Poland (45)
• Korea, Republic of (44)
• Lebanon (40)
• Liberia (39)
• Philippines (38)
• Czech republic (36)
• Israel (36)
• Palestine (32)

Origine of last name

WOODS : 1: English: variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Wood">Wood</a> with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.2: Irish: adopted as a translation of Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’ (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Quill">Quill</a>) or in Ulster of Mac Con Coille ‘son of Cú Choille’ a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’ which has also been mistranslated <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Cox">Cox</a> as if formed with coileach ‘cock rooster’.3: In some cases also an Americanized form of French <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Dubois">Dubois</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Gadbois">Gadbois</a>.