Popularity of the last name by country
United Kingdom
- Herefordshire and Worcester (14,303)
- Shropshire (7,409)
- Staffordshire (7,232)
- Lancashire (5,797)
- Warwickshire (5,321)
- London (5,300)
- Somerset (5,266)
- Kent (5,026)
- Gloucestershire (4,969)
- Cheshire (2,717)
- Essex (1,924)
- Surrey (1,566)
- Lincolnshire (1,490)
- Powys (1,056)
- Hampshire (983)
- Derbyshire (949)
- Wiltshire (900)
- Dorset (868)
- North Yorkshire (808)
- Norfolk (601)
- East Sussex (553)
- Suffolk (455)
- Berkshire (420)
- Oxfordshire (419)
- Avon (358)
- Leicestershire (334)
- Devon (325)
- Hertfordshire (288)
- Buckinghamshire (284)
- Cornwall (259)
- County Durham (257)
- Nottinghamshire (254)
- Cumbria (232)
- Cambridgeshire (225)
- Clwyd (213)
- Gwent (192)
- West Midlands (192)
- Northamptonshire (180)
- Cleveland (172)
- Northumberland (169)
- West Sussex (123)
- Strathclyde (114)
- Merseyside (82)
- West Yorkshire (75)
- South Glamorgan (69)
- Bedfordshire (68)
- Lothian (57)
- South Yorkshire (49)
- Grampian (48)
- West Glamorgan (46)
- Dyfed (45)
- Down (40)
- Antrim (37)
- Dumfries and Galloway (31)
- Tayside (30)
- Fifeshire (19)
- Tyne and Wear (19)
- Londonderry (17)
- Isle of Man (16)
- Mid Glamorgan (14)
All countries
- United States (155,985)
- United Kingdom (85,267)
- Canada (3,275)
- Australia (2,738)
- Unknown country (2,035)
- New Zealand (1,832)
- France (1,689)
- Germany (1,581)
- Ireland (841)
- Switzerland (497)
- Italy (267)
- Netherlands (185)
- Belgium (137)
- Mexico (133)
- Colombia (112)
- Paraguay (99)
- Denmark (86)
- Spain (82)
- Austria (81)
- Brazil (63)
- India (61)
- Lebanon (58)
- Peru (57)
- Portugal (54)
- China (43)
- Russian Federation (43)
- South Africa (39)
- Poland (38)
- Indonesia (36)
- Sweden (30)
- Cuba (29)
- Argentina (27)
- Greece (26)
- Czech republic (24)
- Japan (24)
- Malta (24)
- Philippines (23)
- Egypt (22)
- Panama (22)
- Turkey (22)
Origine of last name
WEAVER : 1: English: occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle English weven ‘to weave’ (Old English wefan).2: English: habitational name from a place on the Weaver river in Cheshire now called Weaver Hall but recorded simply as Weuere in the 13th and 14th centuries. The river name is from Old English wēfer(e) ‘winding stream’.3: Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘weaver’ for example German <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Weber">Weber</a> Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Tkacz">Tkacz</a> or <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Tkach">Tkach</a> Hungarian Takács (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Takacs">Takacs</a>) and Slovenian Tkalec <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Tekavec">Tekavec</a> or <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Veber">Veber</a>.
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