Bessel 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 1
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 2
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 8
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 1
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 1
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 3
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 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Bessel Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Bessel family

Profession Census Frequency
Domestic Servant 1
Housemaid Domestic Servant 1
General Dealer 1
Book Binder Employing 10 Hands 1
Draper Master 1
Labourer In Chemical Works 1
Packer In Blackingman 1
Stay Maker 1
None 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Bessel

Name Census Frequency
Elizabeth Bessel 7
Mary Bessel 6
Charles Bessel 5
John Bessel 4
Sarah Bessel 4
William Bessel 4
Alice Bessel 3
Florence Bessel 3
George Bessel 3
James Bessel 3
Thomas Bessel 3
Eliza Bessel 2
Ellen Bessel 2
Emma Bessel 2
Frances Bessel 2
Frank Bessel 2
Frederick Bessel 2
Grace Bessel 2
Henry Bessel 2
Joseph Bessel 2
Margaret Bessel 2
Sydney Bessel 2
Abraham Bessel 1
Ada Bessel 1
Adelaide Bessel 1

Bessel Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Bessell 86% 3,018
2 Bassil 67% 736
3 Bussel 83% 280
4 Bissel 83% 157
5 Bassel 83% 138
6 Beslee 67% 136
7 Bessel 100% 113

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The surname Bessel is the 7th most popular variant of Bessell.

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