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twist Name Meaning and History

  1. probably a variant of Twiss, or possibly in a few cases from Twist, a minor place in Devon, or Twist Wood in Brede, Sussex, both named from Old English twist, Middle English twist ‘something twisted or forked’.
  2. possibly a metonymic occupational name for someone in the cotton-spinning industry, whose responsibility was to combine threads into a strong cord, a sense of twist recorded from the 16th century.

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

Distribution of twist Families in the US in 1920
Number of twist families
 18-33
 7-17		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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