Updated June 9, 2019

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Hedged forest

Boy name variations

Heywood

Heywood

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Heiwood

Heiwood

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Woody

Woody

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How Popular Is The Name Haywood

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Midlands) : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Herefordshire. Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, and Staffordshire, so called from Old English (ge)hæg ‘enclosure’ + wudu ‘wood’. It was a common practice in the Middle Ages for areas of woodland to be fenced off as hunting grounds for the nobility. This name may have been confused in some cases with Hayward and perhaps also with the name Hogwood (of uncertain origin, possibly a habitational name from a minor place).