Haywood

Where Haywood comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Haywood.

Haywood through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #600 among boys, with 10 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1899
    Peak, #362
    25 babies named Haywood, its best rank.
  3. 1903
    Haywood S. Hansell born
    American U.S. Air Force major general
  4. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #4,803.
  5. 1996
    Haywood Highsmith born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Haywood Highsmith · American basketball player, born 1996
  • Haywood S. Hansell · American U.S. Air Force major general, 1903–1988
  • Haywood Yancey Riddle · American politician, 1834–1879
  • Haywood Nelson · American actor, born 1960
  • Haywood Sullivan · American college football player, Major League Baseball player, Boston Red Sox general manager, 1930–2003

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.