Boy name origins & meanings
- Old English : Forester; row of houses by a wood
How Popular Is The Name Woodrow
Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from a place named Woodrow, from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + rāw ‘row’, ‘line’, i.e. a row of cottages near a wood. There are places bearing this name in Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire, but the surname is found mainly in Norfolk.