The origin of the name Woods
Variant of Wood
English and Scots: 1. in the overwhelming majority of cases a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood or a metonymic occupational name for a woodcutter or forester, from Middle English wode wood (Old English wudu). 2. nickname for a mad, eccentric, or violent person, from Middle English wōd mad, frenzied (Old English wād), as in Adam le Wode Adam the Mad, Worcestershire 1221.
Variants (of 1): Woode, Woods; Wooder, Woodman; Wooding, Woodings, Woodin, Wooddin; Attwood, Bywood.
Cognates (of 1): Low German: Widde, Wede, Wehde, Weh, Wehe, Wedemann, Wehmann. Swedish: Wedin, Vedin.
Compound (of a cognate of 1): Swedish: Wedberg (wood hill).
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