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Webster

in Virginia

There are 1,734 people with the last name "Webster" in Virginia.

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Ranking in Virginia

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Webster 396
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  1. is 392nd most common Gilliam
  2. is 393rd most common Blair
  3. is 394th most common Barton
  4. is 395th most common Arrington
  5. is 396th most common Webster
  6. is 397th most common Atkinson
  7. is 398th most common Blackwell
  8. is 399th most common Cash
  9. is 400th most common Vaughn

Most Common First Names for Webster

John, William, Robert, David, James, George, Michael, Mary, Susan, Daniel

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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