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Webster

in Rhode Island

There are 221 people with the last name "Webster" in Rhode Island.

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Ranking in Rhode Island

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Webster 514
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  1. is 510th most common Bruno
  2. is 511th most common Dutra
  3. is 512th most common Hicks
  4. is 513th most common Parenteau
  5. is 514th most common Webster
  6. is 515th most common Welch
  7. is 516th most common Barboza
  8. is 517th most common Waterman
  9. is 518th most common Driscoll

Most Common First Names for Webster

Daniel, John, William, David, Donald, Donna, Michael, Beverly, Herbert, Holly

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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