Shad Family History
Shad Name Meaning
Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic shad
‘happy’.English: metonymic occupational name for a
fisherman or fish seller, from Old English sceadd ‘shad’, a
kind of fish. Reaney and Wilson note that during the Old English
period there was a ‘shad season’, so it must have been of some
economic importance.Americanized spelling of German
Schade.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Shad Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shad families
 8 - 14  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Shad families
|
13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Shad last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Shad Family Origin
Shad Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Shad
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Shad Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Shad census records
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Shad Civil War Service Records
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