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Shaw

in Wisconsin

There are 2,096 people with the last name "Shaw" in Wisconsin.

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Ranking in Wisconsin

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Shaw 145
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  1. is 141st most common Lemke
  2. is 142nd most common Sanders
  3. is 143rd most common Beck
  4. is 144th most common Jacobs
  5. is 145th most common Shaw
  6. is 146th most common Lang
  7. is 147th most common Patterson
  8. is 148th most common Griffin
  9. is 149th most common Brandt

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Shaw

Robert, David, Michael, John, James, Mary, Linda, Steven, Timothy, William

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Meaning & History

1. 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.

2. Scottish and Irish: adopted as an English form of any of various Gaelic surnames derived from the personal name Sitheach ‘wolf’.

3. Americanized form of some like-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surname.

4. 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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