Blood is used as a family name or surname in Old Norse, Dutch. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Blood
No. of characters: 5
Origin: Old Norse, Dutch
Meaning: The last name is derived from Old Norse blaude that means bashful, timid. In the Dutch, signifies timorous, cowardly, a simpleton. Godkin, 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, are now living surgeons whose names are Churchyard, Death, Blood and Slaughter. It may be the same name as Lloyd, Floyd, from llwyd, brown, grey. The name of General Blood appeared in Sporting Life in January, 1867.

How popular is Blood?

Blood is common in Pakistan.

Blood is ranked 32259 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Blood bearers increased by 2.196245 per cent in 2010 US census to 5770 since 2000, the surname slipped by 324 spots and ranked at 5964. The last name was found in around 20 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 93.62 94.56
Blood is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Gibraltar is ahead in terms of density. Around 15528 people have been found who wears Blood as their family name. Blood is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
9,568 Thailand8
607,991 Indonesia5
734 Myanmar4
35,184 Poland3
3,340 Jamaica3
14,078 Japan3
3,861 Syria3
18,114 Algeria3
24,269 Peru2
960 Saint Lucia2
20,837 Venezuela2
21,529 Singapore2
5,936 Bahrain2
4,164 Vietnam2
9,272 Ecuador2
118,441 Germany2
65,594 Belgium2
1,521 Montenegro2
26,532 Chile2
14,373 Jordan1
17,575 Kuwait1
28,365 Kenya1
5,467 Haiti1
3,071 Jersey1
5,872 Namibia1
123,175 Tanzania1
29,595 Iran1
7,941 Guatemala1
1,254 Gibraltar1
17,236 Ghana1
48,575 Azerbaijan1
12,270 Lebanon1
537 Liechtenstein1
586 San Marino1
2,211 Brunei1
47,891 Norway1
11,923 Slovenia1
13,972 Sri Lanka1
3,243 Suriname1
3,275 Nepal1
2,613 The Bahamas1
14,644 Tunisia1
15,705 Cameroon1
49,101 Denmark1
8,500 Dominican Republic1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
20,318 United Arab Emirates46
2,558 China17
81,586 Spain17
78,557 Netherlands13
7,235 Trinidad and Tobago12
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
5,546 Scotland98
104,308 France86
19,740 Romania84
4,527 Ireland76
66,582 Argentina60
85,668 Italy56
6,104 Wales56
12,143 New Zealand52
Countries with hundreds of Blood:
4,615 Australia650
30,822 Philippines387
16,034 South Africa384
13,847 Canada272
17,962 Morocco268
22,396 Turkey245
13,453 Saudi Arabia231
19,046 Mexico183
10,151 Malaysia177
60,164 Brazil159
154,600 India108
Countries with thousands of Blood:
5,533 United States7,120
3,757 Bangladesh2,063
4,847 England1,522
5,442 Pakistan1,006
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Workwoman Maria Blood from Ireland aboard the Lydia from Limerick during the Irish famine. She is registered to be 24 years old when she arrived in USA on August 21, 1851.

Blood Namesakes

  • Henry Ames Blood, Poet
  • Aretas Blood, Businessman
  • Jessie Athen Bloodworth, Author
  • James Bloodworth, Jr., Physician
  • Bliss Blood, Musician
  • Buster Bloodvessel, Singer
  • Caleb Blood Smith, American Politician
  • Thomas Blood, Military Officer
  • The Bloody Beetroots, DJ
  • James Blood Ulmer, Guitarist
  • In 2017 horror film, Terror 66, Lorn Blood portrayed Segments "The Grave of Bleu Chambers" and "The Clown Motel".
  • In 2017, Mike Blood played the role of William in horror flick Terror 66.

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