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Shaw

in Kentucky

There are 1,606 people with the last name "Shaw" in Kentucky.

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Ranking in Kentucky

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Shaw 305
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  1. is 301st most common Grant
  2. is 302nd most common Goodman
  3. is 303rd most common Peters
  4. is 304th most common Riggs
  5. is 305th most common Shaw
  6. is 306th most common Haynes
  7. is 307th most common Wyatt
  8. is 308th most common Todd
  9. is 309th most common Dotson

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Shaw

James, Robert, David, Michael, John, William, Barbara, Charles, Donald, Kenneth

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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