Woodfield Family History
Woodfield Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a stretch of open country by a wood or (as a later formation) someone who lived near a field by a wood from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu) + feld ‘open country’ later with the modern meaning ‘field’. Scottish: habitational name from Woodfield a place near Annan in Dumfriesshire. A certain Roger Wodyfelde is recorded as holding land in Dumfries in 1365.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022