Sahw Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 1
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 6
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 6
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 2

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Sahw Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Sahw family

Profession Census Frequency
Worker In Alton Gardens 2
Colliery Engine Tenter 1
Colliery Engine Tenter's Wife 1
Cotton Weaver 1
House Keeper 1
Labourer 1
Private 100 Regt 1
Potter 1
Scholar 1
Dyer 1
Servant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Sahw

Name Census Frequency
Mary Sahw 14
Sarah Sahw 12
William Sahw 12
John Sahw 8
Ann Sahw 7
James Sahw 7
Jane Sahw 7
George Sahw 6
Charles Sahw 5
Joseph Sahw 4
Samuel Sahw 4
Arthur Sahw 3
Edith Sahw 3
Hannah Sahw 3
Thomas Sahw 3
Charlotte Sahw 2
Eliza Sahw 2
Elizabeth Sahw 2
Ellen Sahw 2
Emily Sahw 2
Emma Sahw 2
Harriet Sahw 2
Harry Sahw 2
Henry Sahw 2
Louisa Sahw 2

Sahw Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Shaw 50% 355,842
2 Show 50% 3,271
3 Shawe 40% 1,692
4 Shew 50% 1,108
5 Ashew 40% 471
6 Showe 40% 198
7 Sahw 100% 161
8 Ushaw 40% 133

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The surname Sahw is the 7th most popular variant of Shaw.

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