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Shaw

in Alabama

There are 2,545 people with the last name "Shaw" in Alabama.

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Ranking in Alabama

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Shaw 193
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  1. is 189th most common Maddox
  2. is 190th most common Perkins
  3. is 191st most common Pugh
  4. is 192nd most common Lawrence
  5. is 193rd most common Shaw
  6. is 194th most common Myers
  7. is 195th most common Bush
  8. is 196th most common Lindsey
  9. is 197th most common Rhodes

Similar Names and Nicknames

Shawver, Shawn, Shew, Shawley, Shawhan, Shawl, Shawgo, Shawler, Show, Shawcroft

Most Common First Names for Shaw

James, Robert, John, William, David, Mary, Michael, Charles, Joseph, Billy

Meaning & History

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 邵: variant of Shao.

FOREBEARS Early American merchants and revolutionary patriots were Nathaniel Shaw (b. 1735 in New London, CT) and Samuel Shaw (b. 1754 in Boston).

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