Shaw (name)

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Shaw is most commonly a surname and rarely a given name. The name is of English and Scottish origin. In some cases the surname is an Americanization of a similar sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surname.[1]

In England and Scotland the name is a topographic name for someone who lived by a copse or thicket.[1] This name is derived from the Middle English schage, shage, schawe, and shawe, from the Old English sceaga meaning "dweller by the wood".[1][2] The name can also be a habitational name derived from places named after these words. The English surname was established in Ireland in the 17th century. In Scotland and Ireland the surname can also be an English form of several surnames derived from the Gaelic personal name sitheach meaning "wolf".[1][3]

People with the given name "Shaw"

People with the surname "Shaw"

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  1. 1 2 3 4 Shaw Family History, Ancestry.com, retrieved 8 February 2012. This webpage cited: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4.
  2. ↑ Reaney, Percy Hilde; Wilson, Richard Middlewood (2006). A Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd ed.). London: Routledge. p. 2811. ISBN 0-203-99355-1.
  3. ↑ MacDonald, E. (1902) Faclair Gàidhlig air son nan Sgoiltean p. 838
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