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Shakspere Surname Definition:

(English) a nickname for a spear-carrying individual, as a Beadle, Sergeant, and (more especially) a Soldier [from Middle English schaken, Old English sc(e)acan, to shake + Middle English Old English spere] Robertus Schaksper.—Yorks Poll-Tax, A.

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Shakspere Surname Distribution Map

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PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England311:786,30235,304
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States71:7,174,098302,835

Shakspere Surname Meaning

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(English) a nickname for a spear-carrying individual, as a Beadle, Sergeant, and (more especially) a Soldier [from Middle English schaken, Old English sc(e)acan, to shake + Middle English Old English spere] Robertus Schaksper.—Yorks Poll-Tax, A.D. 1379.

Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspeare. —Bapt. Reg. Stratf.-on-Avon, 26th April, 1564.

Cp. Shakelance and Shakeshaft, the name ‘William Sharpspere’ found in the Close Rolls, a.d. 1278, and the old term ‘shakebuckler’ for a bully; also the Roman Quirinus [from Latin quiris, a spear]

— Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison
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