English: topographic name for someone living on a wooded hill, from
Middle English wode ‘wood’ + hyll ‘hill’, or a
habitational name from any of various minor places named with these
elements.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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