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Westwood Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places
named Westwood, from Old English west ‘west’ + wudu
‘wood’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Westwood Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Westwood families
 33 - 64  12 - 32 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Westwood families
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910 - 1,818 304 - 909 |
1 - 303 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Westwood families
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67 - 132 23 - 66 |
1 - 22 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Westwood Family Origin
Westwood Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Westwood
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Westwood Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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