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woodcock Name Meaning and History

  1. from Middle English woodcock (a compound of Old English wudu ‘wood’ + cocc ‘cock’, ‘bird’), a bird that is notoriously easy to catch, hence a nickname for a stupid or gullible person.
  2. variant of Woodcott, a habitational name from any of various places named with Old English wudu ‘wood’ + cot ‘cottage’, ‘shelter’, as for example Woodcott in Cheshire and Hampshire or Woodcote in Hampshire, Surrey, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, and Shropshire.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of woodcock Families in the US in 1920
Number of woodcock families
 95-187
 32-94		 1-31
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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