Besse Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 1
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 1
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Besse Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Besse family

Profession Census Frequency
A B Seaman 1
Master's Daughter 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Besse

Name Census Frequency
Sarah Besse 8
William Besse 8
Mary Besse 7
Charles Besse 5
John Besse 5
Joseph Besse 5
George Besse 4
James Besse 4
Ellen Besse 3
Henry Besse 3
Louis Besse 3
Alice Besse 2
Ann Besse 2
Eliza Besse 2
Elizabeth Besse 2
Elsie Besse 2
Emma Besse 2
Francis Besse 2
Grace Besse 2
Hanson Besse 2
Harriet Besse 2
Maria Besse 2
Nels Besse 2
Paul Besse 2
Prince Besse 2

Besse Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Bass 60% 23,795
2 Buss 60% 7,296
3 Boss 60% 4,749
4 Bees 60% 4,440
5 Biss 60% 3,833
6 Beese 80% 1,721
7 Bess 80% 751
8 Bessie 83% 315
9 Baiss 40% 254
10 Bease 80% 192
11 Busse 80% 154
12 Besse 100% 136

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The surname Besse is the 12th most popular variant of Bass.

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