Wright Family History
Wright Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: occupational name for a
maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds,
from Old English wyrhta, wryhta ‘craftsman’ (a
derivative of wyrcan ‘to work or make’). The term is found in
various combinations (for example, Cartwright and
Wainwright), but when used in isolation it generally referred
to a builder of windmills or watermills.Common New England
Americanized form of French Le Droit, a nickname for an upright
person, a man of probity, from Old French droit ‘right’, in
which there has been confusion between the homophones right and
wright.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Wright Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wright families
 2,208 - 4,413  737 - 2,207 |
 1 - 736  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Wright families
|
7,020 - 14,037 2,341 - 7,019 |
1 - 2,340 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wright families
|
1,354 - 2,705 452 - 1,353 |
1 - 451 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Wright Family Origin
Wright Immigration Information
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Wright Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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