English (chiefly West Midlands): habitational name from any of
various places called Woodhall, for example in Hertfordshire,
Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, and Lothian, so named from Old English
wudu ‘wood’ + heall ‘hall’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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