Woodman Name Meaning. occupational name for a woodcutter or a forester (compare Woodward), or topographic name for someone who lived in the woods. possibly from the Old English personal name Wudumann. Similar surnames: Goodman, Waldman, Woodland, Todman, Woodfin, Bodman, Holdman, Moorman.
Woodruff Name Meaning. English: topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of land where woodruff grew, Old English wudurofe (a compound of wudu 'wood' with a second element of unknown origin).
Shakespearean Meaning: The name Woodville is a Shakespearean baby name. In Shakespearean the meaning of the name Woodville is: Henry VI, Part 1' Lieutenant of the Tower.
Woodward is a name that was carried to England in the great wave of migration from Normandy following the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is a name for a forester. Looking back even further, we found the name was originally derived from the Old English words wode, meaning wood, and ward, meaning guardian or keeper.
The Woolcott surname is a habitational name derived from the place name Woolcot in Somerset, which in turn is thought to come from the Middle English words "wolle," meaning "spring," and "cot" meaning a cottage or shelter.
Worcester Name Meaning. English: habitational name from the city of Worcester, named from Old English ceaster 'Roman fort or walled city' (Latin castra 'legionary camp') + a British tribal name of uncertain origin.
Worden Name Meaning. English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from a place near Chorley. Early forms consistently show the first syllable as Wer-, and the name is probably derived from Old English wer 'weir' + denu 'valley'.
In English the meaning of the name Wordsworth is: World guardian.
Worrell Name Meaning. English: habitational name from Worrall in South Yorkshire, named with Old English wir 'bog myrtle' + halh 'nook', 'recess'. The Wirral peninsula in Cheshire has the same origin and may well be the source of the surname in some cases.
English: habitational name from places in Lancashire and Leicestershire named Worthington; both may have originally been named in Old English as Wurðingtun 'settlement (Old English tun) associated with Wurð', but it is also possible that the first element was Old English worðign, a derivative of worð 'enclosure'.
