Shanks Family History
Shanks Name Meaning
Scottish and northern Irish: nickname for someone with long legs or
some peculiarity of gait, from Old English sceanca ‘shin bone’,
‘leg’. This vocabulary word was preserved in Scotland, whereas in
England it was replaced by Old Norse leggr.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Shanks Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shanks families
 75 - 147  26 - 74 |
 1 - 25  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Shanks families
|
103 - 204 35 - 102 |
1 - 34 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shanks families
|
315 - 627 106 - 314 |
1 - 105 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Shanks Family Origin
Shanks Immigration Information
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Shanks Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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