Last Name BLOOD

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Meaning The son of Lloyd, from Ap-Lloyd. Lloyd is found as Floyd, Flood, and Flud. The patronymic bacame in a similar way Bloyd, Blood, and Blud.
In the Dutch, signifies timorous, cowardly; a simpleton. Lower informs us that Godkin, Blood (S'blood), and Sacre, may be regarded as clipped oaths, and given as names to the persons in the habit of using them; and that in the neighborhood of a fashionable square in London, where later lived surgeons whose names were Churchyard, Death, Blood, and Slaughter.
Origin Welsh, German, Polish, Irish

Rank 5,640 (2000 US census) 5,317 (1990 US census)
Count 5,646 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.56%, or 5339 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 1.61%, or 91 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.25%, or 14 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 1.03%, or 58 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.58%, or 89 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 0.97%, or 55 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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