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woodbury Name Meaning and History

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’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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woodbury Family Facts

Distribution of woodbury Families in the US in 1920
Number of woodbury families
 171-340
 58-170		 1-57
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