Bestow 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 1
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 1
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 2
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 1
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire (and Rutland) 14
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 1
London 1
Middlesex 1
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 5
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland (and Huntingdonshire) 14
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 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Bestow Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Bestow family

Profession Census Frequency
Female Servant 3
Agricultural Labourer 2
Lab 1
Shepherd 1
Nurse Child 1
Assistant 1
Independent 1
Painter 1
Publican 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Bestow

Name Census Frequency
John Bestow 12
William Bestow 12
Thomas Bestow 11
Elizabeth Bestow 9
Sarah Bestow 9
Samuel Bestow 7
Frederick Bestow 6
Mary Bestow 5
Ann Bestow 4
Henry Bestow 4
Julia Bestow 4
Susannah Bestow 4
Ada Bestow 3
Ellen Bestow 3
George Bestow 3
Joseph Bestow 3
Maria Bestow 3
Eleanor Bestow 2
Emma Bestow 2
Francis Bestow 2
Gertrude Bestow 2
Hannah Bestow 2
Harriet Bestow 2
James Bestow 2
Luke Bestow 2

Bestow Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Bastow 83% 5,956
2 Bustow 83% 357
3 Baistow 71% 288
4 Bestow 100% 176

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The surname Bestow is the 4th most popular variant of Bastow.

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