Birss 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 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
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 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Birss Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Birss family

Profession Census Frequency
Bricklayer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Birss

Name Census Frequency
David Birss 8
John Birss 8
William Birss 6
Charles Birss 5
Elizabeth Birss 5
James Birss 5
Andrew Birss 4
George Birss 4
Joseph Birss 4
Margaret Birss 4
Mary Birss 4
Barbra Birss 3
Isabella Birss 3
Jane Birss 3
Sarah Birss 3
Annabella Birss 2
Caroline Birss 2
Donald Birss 2
Francis Birss 2
Frank Birss 2
Jessie Birss 2
Lucy Birss 2
Robert Birss 2
Ada Birss 1
Agnes Birss 1

Birss Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Brass 60% 4,407
2 Burrs 60% 517
3 Bross 60% 234
4 Burs 60% 232
5 Briss 60% 185
6 Barss 80% 154
7 Bress 60% 145
8 Bauress 57% 143
9 Birss 100% 115
10 Brissue 43% 113

Did you know?

The surname Birss is the 9th most popular variant of Brass.

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