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Type Surname (from occupation)
Usage English

Meaning & History

Occupational name for a woodcutter or a forester (compare Woodward), or topographic name for someone who lived in the woods.
Possibly from the Old English personal name Wudumann.
Added 3/19/2009 by LMS
Edited 5/14/2014 by LMS