Submitted NameRevisions Save Type Surname (from occupation) Usage English Edit Status Status [show contributorshide contributors] Added 3/19/2009 by LMS Edited 5/14/2014 by LMS 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.