First name origin & meaning: Old English: Forester; row of houses by a wood First name variations: Woodruff, Woodward, Woodie, Woody Last name origin & meaning: 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. This name appears in the following lists:
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