The heywood Surname
heywood Name Meaning and History
English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from a place near
Manchester, so named from Old English heah ‘high’ +
wudu ‘wood’. There is also a place in Wiltshire so called, from
Old English (ge)hæg ‘enclosure’ + wudu. Compare
Haywood, although this is probably not the source of the
surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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