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woodruff Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of land where woodruff grew, Old English wudurofe (a compound of wudu ‘wood’ with a second element of unknown origin). The leaves of the plant have a sweet smell and the surname may also have been a nickname for one who used it as a perfume, or perhaps an ironical nickname for a malodorous person.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of woodruff Families in the US in 1920
Number of woodruff families
 254-505
 85-253
 1-84
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