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woods Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived in the woods (see Wood).
  2. Irish: English name 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’.

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

Distribution of woods Families in the US in 1920
Number of woods families
 800-1597
 267-799		 1-266
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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