# Shawcross

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #75,405

## Definitions
1. A surname from Old English.

## Etymology
Probably a habitational surname from Shaw Cross, a suburb of Dewsbury, a town in West Yorkshire, from Old English sċeaga (“copse, thicket”) + croft (“enclosed field”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/shawcross