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Webster

in Illinois

There are 2,320 people with the last name "Webster" in Illinois.

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Ranking in Illinois

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Webster 378
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  1. is 374th most common Mcguire
  2. is 375th most common Caldwell
  3. is 376th most common Mccormick
  4. is 377th most common Stanley
  5. is 378th most common Webster
  6. is 379th most common Estrada
  7. is 380th most common Warner
  8. is 381st most common Barker
  9. is 382nd most common Olsen

Most Common First Names for Webster

James, David, Robert, Charles, Richard, William, Daniel, Barbara, Donald, Michael

Meaning & History

English (chiefly Yorkshire, Lancashire, and the Midlands) and Scottish: occupational name for a weaver, early Middle English webber, agent derivative of Webb.

FOREBEARS The name Webster was brought to North America from England independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One John Webster settled in Ipswich, MA, in 1635; another John Webster (d. 1661), ancestor of the lexicographer Noah Webster, emigrated to Cambridge, MA, in about 1631 and later became one of the founders of the colony of CT, of which he was appointed governor in 1656.Daniel Webster (1782–1852), politician and orator, was born in Salisbury, NH, a descendant of Thomas Webster, a prominent 17th-century citizen of Ipswich, MA, whose family had settled there around 1635, while he was still a child.

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