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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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