Linwood

Where Linwood comes from

From Old English lind (“linden tree”) + Old English wudu (“woods, forest”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Linwood
  • 2 syllables
Linwood through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys, with 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1945
    Peak, #396
    227 babies named Linwood, its best rank.
  3. 1955
    Linwood Boomer born
    Canadian-American television producer, writer, and actor
  4. 1955
    Linwood Barclay born
    American born, Canadian humourist, author and former columnist.
  5. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #734.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Linwood Boomer · Canadian-American television producer, writer, and actor, born 1955
  • Linwood Barclay · American born, Canadian humourist, author and former columnist., born 1955
  • Linwood Clark · American politician, 1876–1965
  • Linwood G. Dunn · American special effects pioneer, 1904–1998

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.