as a Last Name
- 14,791
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Woodson
Meaning & Origins
English (Yorkshire): habitational name for someone from Woodsome in West Yorkshire, named in Old English as æt wudu-hūsum ‘(place at) the houses in the wood’.
| 2,120th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 14,791
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Virgin Island
- has the most people named Woodson per capita
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