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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Scottish : habitational name from any of various minor places named Woodhead, for example in West Yorkshire and Strathmore, from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + hēafod ‘head(land)’, ‘top’, ‘extremity’.

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