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shirts Name Meaning and History

  1. Americanized spelling of German Schertz.
  2. Possibly a variant of English Shirt, a topographic name for someone who lived on a detached piece of land, Middle English shurte, from Old English scyrte ‘skirt’, ‘cut off piece’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of shirts Families in the US in 1920
Number of shirts families
 9-15
 4-8
 1-3
 0
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Henry Ostram Shirts NY Grand Rapids Michigan TERENCEKE 0
Sarah Selinda Shirts/Shurtz/Shurts - 1832 NJ Tori Johnson 1

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