Bigwell 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 1
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 8
Middlesex 3
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 3
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 1
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 5

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

Bigwell Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Bigwell family

Profession Census Frequency
Labourer 2
Scholar 2
Domestic Servant 1
Potters Labourer 1
Nurse 1
General Labourer 1
House Keeper 1
Waiter 1
Private Governess 1
Excavator 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Bigwell

Name Census Frequency
William Bigwell 14
John Bigwell 9
Elizabeth Bigwell 8
Mary Bigwell 8
George Bigwell 7
Sarah Bigwell 7
Ann Bigwell 5
Charles Bigwell 5
Jane Bigwell 5
Thomas Bigwell 5
Eliza Bigwell 4
James Bigwell 4
Annie Bigwell 3
Catherine Bigwell 3
Emma Bigwell 3
Fanny Bigwell 3
Henry Bigwell 3
Joseph Bigwell 3
Caroline Bigwell 2
David Bigwell 2
Eleanor Bigwell 2
Ellen Bigwell 2
Harriet Bigwell 2
Kate Bigwell 2
Martha Bigwell 2

Bigwell Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Bagwell 86% 2,339
2 Bigwell 100% 150

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The surname Bigwell is the 2nd most popular variant of Bagwell.

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