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worth Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places named Worth, for example in Cheshire, Dorset, Sussex, and Kent, from Old English worð ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The vocabulary word probably survived into the Middle English period in the sense of a subsidiary settlement dependent on a main village, and in some cases the surname may be a topographic name derived from this use.

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

Distribution of worth Families in the US in 1920
Number of worth families
 145-288
 49-144
 1-48
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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