Spotswood Family History
Spotswood Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Spottiswoode in Westruther (Berwickshire). The placename may be from an unrecorded personal name Spott + Old English wudu ‘wood’ but there is also a Scots usage of spot in placenames to mean ‘small area or extent of land’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022