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Origin and popularity of the name WOODS

Origin

Woods : 1: English: variant of Wood with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.2: Irish: adopted as a translation of Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’ (see Quill) or in Ulster of Mac Con Coille ‘son of Cú Choille’ a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’ which has also been mistranslated Cox as if formed with coileach ‘cock rooster’.3: In some cases also an Americanized form of French Dubois and Gadbois.

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Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
FANBI : The Oxford Dictionary if Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ©2016, University of the West of England

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Geographic distribution of the 94,736 individuals with the name WOODS on Geneanet.

 

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    Variants of name WOODS

    WOOD WODE HEWITT-WOODS