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Webster

in Maryland

There are 1,739 people with the last name "Webster" in Maryland.

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Ranking in Maryland

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Webster 246
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  1. is 242nd most common Ray
  2. is 243rd most common Dawson
  3. is 244th most common Walters
  4. is 245th most common Neal
  5. is 246th most common Webster
  6. is 247th most common Frazier
  7. is 248th most common Kline
  8. is 249th most common Bishop
  9. is 250th most common Chapman

Most Common First Names for Webster

James, William, John, David, Robert, Richard, Mary, Michael, Kenneth, Charles

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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