Hood Family History
Hood Name Meaning
English and Scottish: metonymic occupational name for a maker
of hoods or a nickname for someone who wore a distinctive hood, from
Middle English hod(de), hood, hud ‘hood’. Some
early examples with prepositions seem to be topographic names,
referring to a place where there was a hood-shaped hill or a natural
shelter or overhang, providing protection from the elements. In some
cases the name may be habitational, from places called Hood, in Devon
(possibly ‘hood-shaped hill’) and North Yorkshire (possibly ‘shelter’
or ‘fortification’).Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic
Ó hUid ‘descendant of Ud’, a personal name of
uncertain derivation. This was the name of an Ulster family who were
bards to the O’Neills of Clandeboy. It was later altered to Mac
hUid. Compare Mahood.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hood Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hood families
 475 - 947  159 - 474 |
 1 - 158  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hood families
|
301 - 600 101 - 300 |
1 - 100 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hood census records
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Hood Family Origin
Hood Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hood Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hood Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hood census records
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