- 6,571
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Woodcock
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. from Middle English woodcock (a compound of Old English wudu ‘wood’ + cocc ‘cock’, ‘bird’), a bird that is notoriously easy to catch, hence a nickname for a stupid or gullible person. 2. variant of Woodcott, a habitational name from any of various places named with Old English wudu ‘wood’ + cot ‘cottage’, ‘shelter’, as for example Woodcott in Cheshire and Hampshire or Woodcote in Hampshire, Surrey, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, and Shropshire.
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 6,571
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maine
- has the most people named Woodcock per capita
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