Lockwood

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ‘Person from Lockwood’, Yorkshire, probably ‘wood within an enclosure’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈɫɑˌkwʊd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Lockwood is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 8.7K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 10K
  • CACanada≈1 in 15K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈53,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
425 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.7K (inferred from the name graph)

United Kingdom, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LockwoodLatin(measured from records)
ล็อควูดThai(measured from records)

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 Lockwood’, Yorkshire, probably ‘wood within an enclosure’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Lockwood, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lockwood 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.

Where Lockwood is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈53,000 est.≈1 in 26K—Lockwood7
US United States—19,8651 in 17K20KLockwood425
GB United Kingdom#795≈7,500 est.≈1 in 8.7KlistedLockwood234
CA Canada—≈2,600 est.≈1 in 15K—Lockwood148
AU Australia—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 10K—Lockwood158
IE Ireland—≈420 est.≈1 in 12K—Lockwood16
NZ New Zealand—≈350 est.≈1 in 14K—Lockwood58
IS Iceland—≈28 est.≈1 in 13K—Lockwood1

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 hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lockwood is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Lock-Wood, Lockwóod

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, United Kingdom, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Локвуд, Lokvud

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Lockwood is also recorded in 4 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 Lockwood, West Riding of Yorkshire, or dweller by the enclosed wood; first attested Henry de Locwode 1294 AssSt

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, Yorks., probably so called from OE loca enclosure (see Lock 2) + wudu Wood. It seems likely that all presentday bearers of the name descend from a single family which originated in this place. There is another place of the same name in Yorks. (Cleveland), first recorded in 1273 as Locwyt, from ON lok fern + vidr wood, brake, but it is not clear whether it has given rise to a surname.

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

  • In English, A placename:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Old English; from the enclosed wood.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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)

18001850190019502000Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood, b. 1830Harold Lockwood, b. 1887Alexander Lockwood, b. 1902Preston Lockwood, b. 1912Margaret Lockwood, b. 1916Gary Lockwood, b. 1937Annea Lockwood, b. 1939Didier Lockwood, b. 1956Patricia Lockwood, b. 1982Bobby Lockwood, b. 1993

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)

FormalDear Lockwood,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Lockwood
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201020K#1,806
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200019K#1,695
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202019K#1,842
GB United KingdomA Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Lockwood mean, and where does it come from?
‘Person from Lockwood’, Yorkshire, probably ‘wood within an enclosure’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Lockwood?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɑˌkwʊd/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Lockwood have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 53 thousand people named Lockwood in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lockwood.
How common is the name Lockwood?
In the United States, the national register counted 19,865 people named Lockwood in 2010, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
How common is Lockwood compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Lockwood is the 795th most common surname of 1,272,424 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Lockwood” — the 795th most common surname in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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