Given name & surname
Fleetwood
“from the forest with the stream”
Fleetwood is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the forest with the stream.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the forest with the stream.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1902. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fleetwood through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 96
- 96 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1958. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 111 as a first name in 2020; 3,612 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fleetwood’s family of names
Fleetwood has a related form in Fleetwode.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Fleetwood
- Fleetwood Varleysport shooter (1862-1936)
- Fleetwood EdwardsEnglish army officer and cricketer (1842-1910)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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