The underwood Surname
underwood Name Meaning and History
English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived near
or in a wood, from Middle English under + wude,
wode ‘wood’, or a habitational name from any of various places
so named, for example in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and the former
county of Ayrshire (from Old English under + wudu).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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