Woodgate

surname · Latin script

Meaning: person who lives by a gate leading into a wood

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/wʊdɡeɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Woodgate is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia
  • GBUnited Kingdom
  • ESSpain

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

person who lives by a gate leading into a wood

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Woodgate is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, from Woodyates (Dorset) or residence by the gate to the wood; first attested William de Wudegat' 1199 Cur (Do)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, lived by a gate leading into an enclosed wood, from ME wode Wood + gate Gate. Vars.: Woodgates, Woodget(t), Woodjetts, Woodyatt. Vars.: Woodruffe, Woodrup, Woodrooffe, Woodrough.

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • In English, A number of places in England:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Edward Woodgate, b. 1845Terry Woodgate, b. 1919Margaret Woodgate, b. 1935J. K. H. Woodgate, b. 1954Dan Woodgate, b. 1960Georgina Cates, b. 1975Jonathan Woodgate, b. 1980

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Woodgate,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Woodgate
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)20022.2K#3,446
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010271#71,886
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020249#81,829
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000238#75,466
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—47—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—18#88,854
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20248#72,019
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20083#134,836
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#414,364
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#403,390

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Woodgate mean, and where does it come from?
person who lives by a gate leading into a wood Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Woodgate?
A machine transcription gives /wʊdɡeɪt/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Woodgate have the most bearers?
Woodgate is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Woodgate”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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