Wetwood

See also: wetwood

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Watwood

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Staffordshire, from Old English wǣt (“wet”) + wudu (“wood”).

Proper noun

Wetwood (plural Wetwoods)

1. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Wetwood is the 61553^rd most common surname in England, belonging to 40 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wetwood”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears