Fletewood Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

It is easy to miss Fletewood in an index if you only search for Fleetwood. In origin, the name means “Wood by the creek”.

Heraldry and the Fletewood name

Arms linked to Fleetwood and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

A variant of Fleetwood

Records show Fletewood as one of the forms Fleetwood took over time. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

For the full story, order the Fletewood surname pack.