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Shaw Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a copse or
thicket, Middle English s(c)hage, s(c)hawe (Old English
sceaga), or a habitational name from any of the numerous minor
places named with this word. The English surname was also established
in Ireland in the 17th century.Scottish and Irish: adopted
as an English form of any of various Gaelic surnames derived from the
personal name Sitheach ‘wolf’.Americanized form of some
like-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surname.Chinese
: variant of Shao.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Shaw Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shaw families
 1,019 - 2,036  340 - 1,018 |
 1 - 339  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Shaw families
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6,794 - 13,585 2,265 - 6,793 |
1 - 2,264 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shaw families
|
1,069 - 2,136 357 - 1,068 |
1 - 356 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Shaw Family Origin
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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