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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Dumfries, Strathclyde, and Yorkshire, named Blackwood, from Old English blæc ‘black’, ‘dark’ + wudu ‘wood’.

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