is Works an Irish name and can it also be spelled Warks? and where in Ireland would it be from ? thanks?

Answer 1

Wark
Scottish and English (Northumberland): habitational name from Wark on the Tweed river, which is named from Old English (ge)weorc ‘(earth)works’, ‘fortification’.

Warks
We have no name meaning and origin for warks


Work

Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Work in the parish of St. Ola, Orkney.

English: from Old English (ge)weorc ‘work’, ‘fortification’, hence probably a topographic name or an occupational name for someone who worked on fortifications or at a fort.

Danish: habitational name from a place so called.

Works
English: variant of Work.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

I'll skip my joke about Olaf Olafson, Chinese Restaurant. I will note that English, Irish and Scots moved around. Even though they talk funny and drive on the wrong side of the road, they are allowed to leave their ancestral villages now and again.

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp

has 48 people named WARK living in the USA in 1880, born in Ireland. there are 7 named WORK, 15 named WORKS.

Answer 2

Jamie because it is how i'm used to seeing it and it is easy. Rhys as well because it is the way it is initially spelled and apparently more advantageous than Reiss and Reece. also Reiss will be mispronounced as Rice, so as it is yet another excuse no longer to %. that spelling.

Answer 3

No, I've never seen it in Ireland. I think it's most likely to be English.

Answer 4

im irish and never heard that name before its not of celtic decent anyway.good answer that guy 2 below me.

Answer 5

According to www.ancestry.com it says it's English.
Works
English: variant of Work.
Hope this helps.

Answer 6

Im Irish and have no clue what you are on about. Works???