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Meaning & Origins
Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name for someone who lived in a row of houses by a wood. Use as a given name was inspired by the American president (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924).
| 1,543rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
English and Scottish: occupational name for a tailor, from Old French tailleur (Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland, and its numbers have been swelled by its adoption as an Americanized form of the numerous equivalent European names, most of which are also very common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example Schneider, Szabó, and Portnov.
| 12th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Woodroe, Woodro, Woodr, Woodra, Woodrowe, Woodrew, Woodraw, Woodger, Wooddrow, Woodroa
Tayler, Tayloe, Tailor, Teyler, Taylo, Taylore, Taylar, Taylan, Talluri, Toylor
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