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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places called Eastwood. Most, such as the one in Essex, get the name from Old English ēast ‘east’ + wudu ‘wood’, but an example in Nottinghamshire originally had as its final element Old Norse þveit ‘meadow’ (see Thwaites).

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