The Wood Surname
Wood Name Meaning and History
- 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).
- nickname for a mad, eccentric, or violent person, from Middle English wod ‘mad’, ‘frenzied’ (Old English wad), as in Adam le Wode, Worcestershire 1221.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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