Woodmael appears to be a rare modern coinage combining wood with a name-like ending.
Woodmael is a name of probable Breton or broader Celtic derivation, built around the element "mael" — one of the most productive roots in the Brythonic naming tradition, meaning "prince," "chief," or in a Christian context "disciple" or "devotee." The same element appears in well-known names such as Maël, Gwenmaël, Erwan (via Iarnomael), and Corentin.
The prefix "Wood" is more enigmatic: it may represent an anglicization of a lost Celtic element relating to forests or wilderness, or it may reflect a later overlay of English place-name vocabulary onto an older Breton personal name. The Breton saints' tradition is rich with Mael-names, and several early medieval saints bearing compound forms were venerated along the Celtic Atlantic coast — Brittany, Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland — in the formative centuries of Christianity in those regions. Saint Mael and his companion Sulien were Welsh hermits said to have withdrawn to Bardsey Island, and the mael element appears in hagiographic texts across multiple Celtic languages with consistent overtones of nobility and spiritual dedication.
In contemporary usage, Woodmael is extraordinarily rare, placing it firmly in the category of names recovered from medieval and hagiographic records by parents seeking something that is both authentically rooted and genuinely unused. It appeals to those drawn to the Breton and broader Brythonic naming tradition — a world of names where nature, nobility, and sanctity interweave — while the distinctive "Wood" prefix gives it a distinctly sylvan, almost mythic quality that sets it apart even within Celtic naming circles.