Underwood

Meanings

Noun

• A typewriter made by the Underwood Typewriter Company.

Proper Noun

• village Nottinghamshire (county) England (constituent country).
• settlement Bishton (Welsh community) City of city, Newport Wales (constituent country) .
• city Iowa (state).
• city/and/town Minnesota (state).
• city North Dakota (state).

Origin

• The name is from England or Scotland, and from Middle English.
• The surname is sometimes habitational, used by someone who lived in any of several places of the same name. Otherwise it is topographic, referring to someone who lived near a wood.
• The common noun comes from the name of the manufacturer, after John T. Underwood, one of its founders.