Bought 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 1
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 7
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 2
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
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 1
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 2
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Bought Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Bought family

Profession Census Frequency
General Labourer 2
General Labourer Wife 2
House Keeper 1
A Seaman 1
Puddler 1
Servant 1
Dress Maker 1
Wheelwright Apprentice 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Bought

Name Census Frequency
Elizabeth Bought 13
Mary Bought 12
William Bought 12
George Bought 8
John Bought 8
Sarah Bought 7
James Bought 6
Charles Bought 5
Eliza Bought 5
Henry Bought 5
Samuel Bought 5
Ellen Bought 4
Emma Bought 4
Frederick Bought 4
Ann Bought 3
Edward Bought 3
Hannah Bought 3
Jane Bought 3
Thomas Bought 3
Arthur Bought 2
Augustus Bought 2
Fanny Bought 2
Francis Bought 2
Frank Bought 2
Robert Bought 2

Bought Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Bott 50% 16,441
2 Boot 50% 11,937
3 Bought 100% 160
4 Bot 50% 157

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The surname Bought is the 3rd most popular variant of Bott.

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