Woodland Family History
Woodland Name Meaning
English (Somerset): from Middle English wodeland (wode ‘wood’ + land(e) lond(e) ‘land’ Old English wuduland). The surname may be topographic for a person who lived at or near a wood or woodland or habitational for a person from any of various places so named such as Woodland (Devon) Woodlands (Dorset) and Woodlands in Almondsbury (Gloucestershire).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022