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Webster

in New Jersey

There are 871 people with the last name "Webster" in New Jersey.

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Webster 791
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  1. is 787th most common Dalton
  2. is 788th most common Petersen
  3. is 789th most common Horowitz
  4. is 790th most common Browne
  5. is 791st most common Webster
  6. is 792nd most common Barker
  7. is 793rd most common Steele
  8. is 794th most common Barr
  9. is 795th most common Muhammad

Most Common First Names for Webster

James, Robert, John, William, Daniel, David, Donald, Michael, Richard, 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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