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Grimshaw
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Origin Of The Surname Grimshaw
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Meaning Of The Surname Grimshaw
From the Town by Grim’s Woods
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Interesting
Facts About
Grimshaw
Grimshaw is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the old name Grim combined with ‘shaw’ to mean ‘Grim’s woods’. The place Grimshaw was built by woods owned by a man named Grim. Nick Grimshaw the English radio presenter is a famous bearer of this surname. |
Grimshaw Statistics
Grimshaw is the number 1160 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 8,331 share the surname Grimshaw in the UK.
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