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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly West Midlands) : habitational name from any of various places called Woodhall, for example in Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, and Lothian, so named from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + heall ‘hall’.

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