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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places so named, as for example Henwood in Cornwall, in Linkinhorne parish, which is named from Old English henn ‘hen’, ‘wild bird’ + wudu ‘wood’, or Hen Wood in Wootton, Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire), which is named from Old English hīwan ‘religious community’ (genitive plural hīgna) + wudu.

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