Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant of Norwood.
- Possibly an altered spelling of German Naurod, a habitational name from Naurod near Wiesbaden, or Nauroth, a habitational name from Nauroth in the Westerwald, both denoting settlements on newly cleared land. Compare Neuroth.
- Benjamin Isaac Norrod (1735–1816) came from Buckinghamshire, England, to MD in 1735, and moved on to Stewart Co., TN.