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Beckwith Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire named
Beckwith, from Old English bece ‘beech’ + Old Norse
viðr ‘wood’ (replacing the cognate Old English wudu).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Beckwith Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Beckwith families
 162 - 321  55 - 161 |
 1 - 54  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Beckwith families
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288 - 574 97 - 287 |
1 - 96 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Beckwith families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Beckwith Family Origin
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Beckwith Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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