Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Woodbridge in Suffolk or Dorset, both named from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + brycg ‘bridge’, i.e. a bridge made of timber or one near a wood.
- John Woodbridge (1613–95), emigrated in 1634 from Stanton in Wiltshire, England, to Newbury, MA, where he was pastor and magistrate.