what kind of last name is 'Ward'?

Question

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Answer 1

Have a look at the link posted below it says its english, and there's a coat of arms.
http://www.houseofnames.com/fc.asp?sId=&s=Ward

Answer 2

Ancestry.Com shows 3553 Ward immigrants from Ireland, 2758 from England, 717 from Great Britain, 259 from Scotland, 65 from Germany, 34 from Sweden.

Meaning it could be an occupation name English for watchman or guard, Irish from the Gaelic Mac an Bhaird, meaning son of a poet, Americanized version of the French
Guerin.

That shows you names do not tell you much where your ancestor originated. The best thing to do is trace your family history starting with your parents and work back. If you wish to do that there are people on this
board that can give you help and advice.

Now House of Names does show a coat of arms (misnomer family crest) for the name Ward. These peddlers who sell them do so solely on a surname which is not valid. Not everyone with the same surname shares the same root person.

Answer 3

Name History and Origin for Ward

1. English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Old English weard ‘guard’ (used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).

2. Irish: reduced form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.

3. Surname adopted by bearers of the Jewish surname Warshawski, Warshawsky or some other Jewish name bearing some similarity to the English name.

4. Americanized form of French Guerin.


Top Places of Origin for Ward

Immigrants

Ireland 3553
England 2758
Great Britain 717
Scotland 259
Germany 65
Sweden 34

Ports of Departure for Ward
Immigrants

Liverpool, England and Queenstown, Ireland 3667
Liverpool, England 3614
Glasgow, Scotland and Moville, Ireland 464
Aspinwall, Panama 356
Glasgow, Scotland 343
London, England 240



Name History and Origin for Warshawsky

1. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from the city of Warsaw (Polish Warszawa), which became the capital of Poland at the end of the 16th century, after the destruction of Kraków by fire.

2. Americanized spelling of the Polish form of this name, Warszawski.

Top Places of Origin for Warshawsky

Immigrants

Russia 14
Preussen 12
Germany 8
Poland 3
Ru 2
England 1

Name History and Origin for Guerin

French (Guérin): from the Germanic personal name Warin, a short form of various compound names beginning with war(in) ‘guard’. This is found as a Huguenot name, established in Ireland (County Limerick).

Top Places of Origin for Guerin

Immigrants

Ireland 74
France 62
Switzerland 11
Great Britain 9
England 7
Belgium 2

Top Places of Origin for McWard

Immigrants

Ireland 7
Great Britain 1

Ports of Departure for McWard

Immigrants

Liverpool, England 4
Glasgow, Scotland and Moville, Ireland 3
San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua 1
Havana, Cuba and New Orleans, Louisiana 1
Glasgow, Scotland 1

Answer 4

English

Answer 5

I hope you spelled Czechoslovakian wrong just to be funny. Anyway, you can just say "czech" (pronounced "check")

I don't think Ward is a Czech name unless someone tried to Anglicize their name when they came to this country.

Here is a name origin for Ward.
http://genealogy.about.com/library/surnames/w/bl_name-WARD.htm

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Answer 6

It's typically English, but can also be Irish...
If you feel that perhaps you have Czech or Slovakian ancestry it could very well be an Anglicized version of a Slavic name.

Answer 7

Try the Oxford Book of Names or any other surname dictionary you can find, this will give you a basis to work from.

Answer 8

It appears that, as with most surnames, the only way for you to learn where your own ancestors are from is to research them back a generation at a time.