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Shaw (male)

Variants:Seaghdh (M) Séaghdha (M)
Lesser Synonym(s):Seth (M)
   
Source(s): FreeCEN 1841 Census of Aberdeenshire
The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:

1. Scottish, Anglicized form of Seaghdh/Séaghdha, Gaelic "hawk-like", as is Seth.

Shaw occurs occasionally in the 1841 Census of Aberdeenshire.

2. English from the surname which was derived from place-names meaning "wood, copse" in Old English or Old Norse.
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