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Shaw

in Minnesota

There are 1,566 people with the last name "Shaw" in Minnesota.

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Ranking in Minnesota

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Shaw 178
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  1. is 174th most common Armstrong
  2. is 175th most common Holmes
  3. is 176th most common Krause
  4. is 177th most common Ness
  5. is 178th most common Shaw
  6. is 179th most common Carpenter
  7. is 180th most common Severson
  8. is 181st most common Stone
  9. is 182nd most common Andersen

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Shaw

Robert, John, David, James, Michael, William, Daniel, Mark, Barbara, Elizabeth

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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Robert Shaw, MN (9 searches)
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