Inwood Family History
Inwood Name Meaning
English: from Middle English in + wōde ‘in wood’. The surname may be topographic denoting one who lived or worked in a wood (or perhaps at the ‘in wood’ or ‘home wood’ i.e. the wood nearest the home farm (the main farm) of an estate as opposed to the ‘out wood’) or toponymic from a place so named such as Inwood in Lacock (Wiltshire).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022