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Origin Of The Surname Woodhouse
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Meaning Of The Surname Woodhouse
From the House by the Woods
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Interesting
Facts About
Woodhouse
Woodhouse is a surname that would have been used as both a locational surname and a topographical surname. Many names could have been used as both, because locational surnames took the name of a town and many towns were named topographically. Woodhouse could come from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English ‘wudu’ combined with ‘hus’ to mean ‘house by the woods’. Towns with this name would have had their original houses built next to some woods. Alternatively this could have been given as a topographical surname, describing the area where the bearer lived. |
Woodhouse Statistics
Woodhouse is the number 1255 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 8,082 share the surname Woodhouse in the UK.
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