Linwood

Where Linwood comes from

From Old English lind (“linden tree”) + Old English wudu (“woods, forest”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Linwood
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1945
    Peak, #396
    227 babies named Linwood — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1955
    Linwood Barclay born
    American born, Canadian humourist, author and former columnist.
  4. 1955
    Linwood Boomer born
    Canadian-American television producer, writer, and actor
  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.