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Origin Of The Surname Westwood
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Meaning Of The Surname Westwood
From the Town with the Wood to the West
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Interesting
Facts About
Westwood
Westwood 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 ‘west’ and ‘wudu’ combined to mean ‘The Wood in the West’. Town with this name would have had a well know forest to the west of them. Dame Vivienne Westwood the British fashion designer is perhaps the most famous bearer of this surname. |
Westwood Statistics
Westwood is the number 1115 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 9,245 share the surname Westwood in the UK.
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