Last Name CALDERWOOD

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Meaning Local:
Local: from the lands of Calderwood in the parish of Kilbride, Lanarkshire. The family were seated at Calderwood at a remote period. The last of the family were three brothers and a sister; and the former having quarreled with the priest of the parish fled to the Earl of Cassilis for protection, who gave them the farms of Peacockhank, and Mossside, in the parish of Stewarton, and the Forty acre lands in Kyle. These three brothers were the ancestors of the present families of Calderwood. The sister remained in Kilbride, married a Maxwell, and became possessed of her father's estate.
Local: The wood on the river Calder.
Origin English, Scottish, Irish

Rank 15,404 (2000 US census) 18,304 (1990 US census)
Count 1,748 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 96.45%, or 1686 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • 0.69%, or 12 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 0.69%, or 12 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 2.06%, or 36 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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