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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : From the old forest
  • Old English : Hedged forest
  • Old English : Forester; row of houses by a wood

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a derivative of Wood with an unexplained second element; this may be a diminutive suffix, or the Old English topographic term ēg ‘island’, ‘piece of high ground in a fen’.

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