Blood
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From a medieval nickname for someone with a pale complexion, or from Welsh ap Llwyd ‘son of Lloyd’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/blʊd/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Blood is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 41K
- USUnited States1 in 58K
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 States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 340 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
5,770 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From a medieval nickname for someone with a pale complexion, or from Welsh ap Llwyd ‘son of Lloyd’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Blood 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 5,770 | 1 in 58K | 5.8K | Blood | 340 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | listed | Blood | 149 |
| AU Australia | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Blood | 101 |
| CA Canada | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Blood | 50 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Blood | 11 |
5,770 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 reaney-english-surnames-1991 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)Blood is also recorded in 5 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 medieval nickname based on the word blood.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, from Old English blōd ‘blood’, also used as a term of address and for a blood-letter; first attested William, John Blod 1256 AssNb, 1328 LLB E.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, N. American people
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, nama
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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)- Thomas Bloodb. 1618IEIrish-born Colonel best known for attempting to steal the Crown Jewels
- Mary Blood Mellenb. 1819USAmerican painter (1819-1886)
- Victoria Woodhullb. 1838USnot in their usual nameAmerican suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
- Henry H. Bloodb. 1872USGovernor of Utah (1872-1942)
- Robert O. Bloodb. 1887USAmerican politician (1887-1975)
- Bobby Bloodb. 1894GBEnglish footballer (1894–1988)
- Archer Bloodb. 1923USAmerican diplomat (1923–2004)
- Ricky Steamboatb. 1953USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler
- Todd Bloodb. 1959actor
- Nick Bloodb. 1982GBBritish actor
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Blood mean, and where does it come from?
- From a medieval nickname for someone with a pale complexion, or from Welsh ap Llwyd ‘son of Lloyd’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Blood?
- In the etymology graph, Bleed is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Blood?
- In English /blʊd/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Blood have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.8 thousand people named Blood, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled blood.
- How common is the name Blood?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,770 people named Blood in 2010, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bloodThe 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, “Blood”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.