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worcester Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from the city of Worcester, named from Old English ceaster ‘Roman fort or walled city’ (Latin castra ‘legionary camp’) + a British tribal name of uncertain origin.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of worcester Families in the US in 1840
Number of worcester families
 25-48
 9-24
 1-8
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1840 US Federal Census records

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