Bowells 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 7
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 2
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 2
Rutland 0
Shropshire 3
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 1
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 5
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 1
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Bowells Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Bowells family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 7
Servant 2
Agricultural Labourer 2
Farm Bailiff 1
Soldier 1
Game Keeper 1
Laundress 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Bowells

Name Census Frequency
John Bowells 13
Mary Bowells 12
Elizabeth Bowells 11
Henry Bowells 6
James Bowells 6
Robert Bowells 6
William Bowells 6
Sarah Bowells 5
Thomas Bowells 5
Charlotte Bowells 4
Eliza Bowells 4
George Bowells 4
Charles Bowells 3
Edward Bowells 3
Ellen Bowells 3
Fanny Bowells 3
Frances Bowells 3
Albert Bowells 2
Ann Bowells 2
Emma Bowells 2
Ernest Bowells 2
Florence Bowells 2
Francis Bowells 2
Maria Bowells 2
Richard Bowells 2

Bowells Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Bowels 86% 623
2 Bowells 100% 161

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The surname Bowells is the 2nd most popular variant of Bowels.

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