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ward Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Old English weard ‘guard’ (used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).
  2. Irish: reduced form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.
  3. Surname adopted by bearers of the Jewish surname Warshawski, Warshawsky or some other Jewish name bearing some similarity to the English name.
  4. Americanized form of French Guerin.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The ward name in History

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Distribution of ward Families in the US in 1920
Number of ward families
 1827-3652
 610-1826		 1-609
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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