Maw Family History
Maw Name Meaning
name for someone who was related to an important local
personality, from Middle English maugh, maw ‘relative’,
especially by marriage (from Old English mage ‘female
relative’). In the north of England this term was used more
specifically to mean ‘brother-in-law’.topographic name from
Middle English mawe ‘meadow’. Some early forms, such as Sibilla
de la Mawe (Suffolk 1275), clearly indicate a topographic origin, by
reason of the preposition and article.probably also from a
Middle English personal name, Mawe, Old English
Meawa, perhaps originally a byname from Old English
m?w ‘sea mew’, ‘seagull’ (compare Mew).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Maw Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Maw families
 14 - 25  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Maw families
|
244 - 486 82 - 243 |
1 - 81 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Maw families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Maw Family Origin
Maw Immigration Information
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Maw Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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