Last name: WESTWOOD
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WESTWOOD : This last name is indexed 71,507 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WESTWOOD : English: topographic name habitational name for someone who lived ‘by the west wood’ (Middle English west + wode) or who came from any of numerous places called Westwood (from Old English west ‘west’ + wudu ‘wood’) such as those in Kent Wiltshire Warwickshire or Worcestershire.
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