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Origin Of The Surname Smallwood
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Meaning Of The Surname Smallwood
From the Town with the Small Wood
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Interesting
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Smallwood
Smallwood is a locational surname coming 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 ‘smael’ meaning small combined with ‘wudu’ meaning wood. Towns with this name would have been built next to a small wood. |
Smallwood Statistics
Smallwood is the number 1229 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 8,142 share the surname Smallwood in the UK.
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