as a Last Name
- 7,838
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Woodbury
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of various places, notably in Devon, called Woodbury, from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + byrig, dative of burh ‘fortified place’, or from either of two places called Woodborough, in Nottinghamshire and Wiltshire. The Nottinghamshire place name is from Old English wudu + burh, while Woodborough in Wiltshire is named with the same first element + Old English beorg ‘hill’.
| 4,536th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,838
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maine
- has the most people named Woodbury per capita
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