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Shaw

in South Carolina

There are 2,952 people with the last name "Shaw" in South Carolina.

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Ranking in South Carolina

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Shaw 132
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  1. is 128th most common Murray
  2. is 129th most common Stephens
  3. is 130th most common Ellis
  4. is 131st most common Mills
  5. is 132nd most common Shaw
  6. is 133rd most common Bishop
  7. is 134th most common Strickland
  8. is 135th most common Smalls
  9. is 136th most common Garrett

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Shaw

James, David, Robert, Mary, John, Michael, William, Barbara, Charles, Linda

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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James Shaw, SC (9 searches)
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