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Waters Name Meaning
English: patronymic from an altered form of the personal name
Walter.English: variant of Water 2.Irish: when
not the English surname, an Anglicized form of various Gaelic names
taken to be derived from uisce ‘water’ (see for example
Haskin, Hiskey, Tydings).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Waters Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Waters families
 461 - 920  154 - 460 |
 1 - 153  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Waters families
|
793 - 1,583 265 - 792 |
1 - 264 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Waters families
|
130 - 257 44 - 129 |
1 - 43 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Waters Family Origin
Waters Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Waters
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Waters Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Waters census records
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