Shrewsbury Surname

114,217th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4,048 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Shrewsbury Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Shrewsbury,' the capital town of Shropshire.

Agnes de Sewesebyry, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

1582. Henry Shrewsbury and Elizabeth Turtle: Marriage Lic. (London).

1590.

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Shrewsbury Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States3,6531:99,22211,027
England2561:217,64918,479
Argentina371:1,155,22769,250
Wales251:123,7819,267
South Africa221:2,462,623101,019
Australia191:1,420,82673,129
Qatar61:393,00055,922
Canada61:6,140,932260,641
Brazil41:53,518,583632,670
Scotland31:1,784,60641,943
Germany31:26,835,153452,368
Mexico21:62,063,10283,384
New Zealand21:2,264,16249,210
Thailand21:35,319,172966,191
France21:33,211,361423,184
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England2231:109,30710,757
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States2651:189,50416,696

Shrewsbury (17) may also be a first name.

Shrewsbury Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Shrewsbury,' the capital town of Shropshire.

Agnes de Sewesebyry, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

1582. Henry Shrewsbury and Elizabeth Turtle: Marriage Lic. (London).

1590. Thomas Shrewesbury, Norfolk: Register of the University of Oxford.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(English) belonging to Shrewsbury, the Anglo-Saxon Scrobbesburh = Scrobb’s Stronghold [the pers. name (in the genit.) is a masc. variant of Old English scrybb, underwood + burh, a fortified place] Richard, the son of Scrob, as well as Richard’s son Osbern, held lands under King Eadward in the counties of Hereford, Worcester, and Salop.— Lapp.Thorpe, Anglo-Saxon Kings, ii. 311.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

The chief town of Shropshire.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

Local. A town in Shropshire, England, from the Saxon Scrube, a shrub, a small tree, and burgh, a town.

An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857) by William Arthur

Shrewsbury Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Shrewsbury Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Shrewsbury is found most frequently in The United States. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Shrewsbury? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 114,217th most prevalent surname internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 1,800,283 people. The last name Shrewsbury occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 88 percent of Shrewsbury reside; 87 percent reside in North America and 87 percent reside in Anglo-North America. It is also the 2,694,839th most commonly used forename throughout the world. It is borne by 17 people.

The surname Shrewsbury is most widely held in The United States, where it is held by 3,653 people, or 1 in 99,222. In The United States it is mostly found in: West Virginia, where 27 percent live, Virginia, where 9 percent live and North Carolina, where 6 percent live. Other than The United States it is found in 20 countries. It is also common in England, where 6 percent live and Argentina, where 1 percent live.

Shrewsbury Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Shrewsbury has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Shrewsbury surname expanded 1,378 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 115 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Shrewsbury Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Shrewsbury last name are 1.41% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 51.82% registered to vote for the party.

The amount Shrewsbury earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 34.14% less than the national average, earning R 156,516 per year; in United States they earn 5.84% less than the national average, earning $40,631 USD per year and in Canada they earn 31.72% more than the national average, earning $65,440 CAD per year.

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