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Ward

in Pennsylvania

There are 5,547 people with the last name "Ward" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

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Ward 95
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  1. is 91st most common Black
  2. is 92nd most common Brooks
  3. is 93rd most common Wood
  4. is 94th most common Boyer
  5. is 95th most common Ward
  6. is 96th most common Coleman
  7. is 97th most common Rogers
  8. is 98th most common Jenkins
  9. is 99th most common Hartman

Similar Names and Nicknames

Warden, Wardell, Wardlaw, Word, Wardlow, Wardle, Wargo, Wardwell, Warda, Wardrop

Most Common First Names for Ward

John, James, Robert, William, Thomas, David, Michael, Joseph, Richard, Charles

Meaning & History

English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Old English weard ‘guard’ (used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).

Irish: reduced form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.

Surname adopted by bearers of the Jewish surname Warshawski, Warshawsky or some other Jewish name bearing some similarity to the English name.

Americanized form of French Guerin.

FOREBEARS The surname Ward was brought to North America from England independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Nathaniel Ward (1578–1652), author of the MA legal code, was born in Haverhill, Suffolk, England, and emigrated to Agawam (Ipswich, MA) in 1633. William Ward was one of the original settlers of Sudbury, MA, in about 1638. Miles Ward came from England to Salem, MA, in about 1639. Thomas Ward (d. 1689) settled in Newport, RI, in 1671; among his descendants were two governors of colonial RI.

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