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The shaw Surname

shaw Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a copse or thicket, Middle English s(c)hage, s(c)hawe (Old English sceaga), or a habitational name from any of the numerous minor places named with this word. The English surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
  2. Scottish and Irish: adopted as an English form of any of various Gaelic surnames derived from the personal name Sitheach ‘wolf’.
  3. Americanized form of some like-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surname.
  4. Chinese : variant of Shao.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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shaw Family Facts

Distribution of shaw Families in the US in 1920
Number of shaw families
 1019-2036
 340-1018		 1-339
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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