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Origin Of The Surname Short
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Meaning Of The Surname Short
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Interesting
Facts About
Short
Short comes from the Old English ‘schort’, meaning, as it does today, short. It would have been used as a descriptive surname for someone of a particularly short height. Nicknames like this later stuck as surname, and were then passed down to future generations regardless of their height. |
Short Statistics
Short is the number 722 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 13,185 share the surname Short in the UK.
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