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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Forester; row of houses by a wood

Boy name variations

Woodruff

Woodruff

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Woodward

Woodward

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Woodie

Woodie

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Woody

Woody

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How Popular Is The Name Woodrow

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place named Woodrow, from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + rāw ‘row’, ‘line’, i.e. a row of cottages near a wood. There are places bearing this name in Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire, but the surname is found mainly in Norfolk.

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