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Shaw

in Pennsylvania

There are 4,933 people with the last name "Shaw" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

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Shaw 121
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  1. is 117th most common Wallace
  2. is 118th most common Ryan
  3. is 119th most common Walters
  4. is 120th most common Walsh
  5. is 121st most common Shaw
  6. is 122nd most common Perry
  7. is 123rd most common Richardson
  8. is 124th most common Howard
  9. is 125th most common Lopez

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Shaw

Robert, William, John, James, David, Michael, Thomas, Richard, George, Mary

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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