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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived on a curved or irregularly shaped piece of land, from Old English wōh ‘curved’, ‘crooked’ + land ‘land’, ‘estate’, or a habitational name from Woolland in Dorset, named from an Old English winn, wynn ‘meadow’, ‘pasture’ + land ‘land’, ‘estate’.

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