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Anonymous asked in Arts & HumanitiesGenealogy · 1 month ago

where does the surname "Wright" originate or which region specifically would find the most people with surname of "Wright"?

what does it mean? why someone would be named 'Wright" and not "Wrong"?

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  • Maxi
    Lv 7
    1 month ago
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    Wright is an occupational surname originating in England. The term 'Wright' comes from the circa 700 AD Old English word 'wryhta' or 'wyrhta', meaning worker or shaper of wood. Later it became any occupational worker (for example, a shipwright is a person who builds ships), and is used as a British family name.

  • 1 month ago

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  • 1 month ago

    "Wright" has nothing to do with "right". "Wright" means someone who builds things or fixes them. A millwright builds mills, which millers then operate. A shipwright builds or repairs ships.

    It originates in England. So does the surname "Miller". Both are called occupational surnames.

  • SOT3
    Lv 6
    1 month ago

    This is such an easy google search. Here is the link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright

  • 1 month ago

    A wright is someone who makes things--a wheelright makes wheels, a shipwright builds ships, a millwright grinds flour (or builds mills, I'm not sure), a wainright builds wagons, etc. 

    And then of course there were Orville and Wilbur Wright who made airplanes.

  • Anonymous
    1 month ago

    i think that is mostly in northern england, Manchester, Ayrshire region or ulster, Ireland. Wright sounds like someone who is religious,probably protestant christian. Wright is also an anglicised version of the Scots Gaelic clan name "MacIntyre" or "Mac an t-Saoir", meaning "son of the wright" (son of the carpenter).[8][9][10] In Ireland, the native Gaelic Mac an Cheairt sept of County Mayo occasionally changed their name to Wright. This is a literal translation meaning, "son of the right or righteous".

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