The shaw Surname
shaw Name Meaning and History
- 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.
- Scottish and Irish: adopted as an English form of any of various Gaelic surnames derived from the personal name Sitheach ‘wolf’.
- Americanized form of some like-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surname.
- Chinese
: variant of Shao.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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