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Shaw

in Tennessee

There are 3,244 people with the last name "Shaw" in Tennessee.

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Ranking in Tennessee

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Shaw 194
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  1. is 190th most common Oliver
  2. is 191st most common Gentry
  3. is 192nd most common Mills
  4. is 193rd most common Fields
  5. is 194th most common Shaw
  6. is 195th most common Daniels
  7. is 196th most common Burton
  8. is 197th most common Holmes
  9. is 198th most common Wade

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Shaw

John, Mary, James, Robert, David, William, Michael, Kevin, Charles, Thomas

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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