English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place in Lancashire,
so named from Old English hop ‘valley among hills’ +
wudu ‘wood’. There is a Hopwood in Worcestershire, identical in
meaning, which may also have given rise to the surname in some
instances.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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