Last name origins & meanings:
- English and Scottish: mainly a topographic name for someone who
lived in or by a wood or a metonymic occupational name for a
woodcutter or forester, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old
English wudu).
- English and Scottish: nickname for a mad, eccentric, or
violent person, from Middle English wōd ‘mad’, ‘frenzied’
(Old English wād), as in Adam le Wode, Worcestershire
1221.
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