Last name: KIRKWOOD
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KIRKWOOD : This last name is indexed 54,846 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
KIRKWOOD : Scottish (central): habitational name from any of at least three places in Scotland called Kirkwood (Ayrshire Dumfriesshire Lanarkshire) named with Middle English kirk ‘church’ (Old Norse kirkja) + wode ‘wood’.
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