English: topographic name for someone who lived on a curved or
irregularly shaped piece of land, from Old English woh
‘curved’, ‘crooked’ + land ‘land’, ‘estate’, or a habitational
name from Woolland in Dorset, named from an Old English winn,
wynn ‘meadow’, ‘pasture’ + land ‘land’, ‘estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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