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First name origins & meanings:

1. English: From the old forest
2. Old English: Hedged forest
3. Old English: Forester; row of houses by a wood

First name variations: Elwood, Heywood, Heiwood, Haywood, Woodruff, Woodward, Woodie, Woodrow

Last name origin & meaning:

English: from a derivative of Wood with an unexplained second element; this may be a diminutive suffix, or the Old English topographic term ēg ‘island’, ‘piece of high ground in a fen’.

Famous people with this first name: Woody Allen, Woody Harrelson

This name appears in the following lists: Before They Were Famous - Name Changers, Rock Kings and Queens