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woodrow Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from a place named Woodrow, from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + raw ‘row’, ‘line’, i.e. a row of cottages near a wood. There are places bearing this name in Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire, but the surname is found mainly in Norfolk.

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Distribution of woodrow Families in the US in 1920
Number of woodrow families
 34-65
 12-33
 1-11
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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