Bownass 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 1
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 7
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 1
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 2
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

Bownass Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Bownass family

Profession Census Frequency
Independent 2
Shoe Maker 1
Farmer 1
Waller 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Bownass

Name Census Frequency
John Bownass 42
Mary Bownass 30
Thomas Bownass 23
William Bownass 23
Richard Bownass 17
Margaret Bownass 16
Elizabeth Bownass 15
Jane Bownass 13
Sarah Bownass 13
Ann Bownass 11
James Bownass 11
Annie Bownass 9
George Bownass 9
Alice Bownass 7
Henry Bownass 7
Betsy Bownass 6
Robert Bownass 6
Agnes Bownass 5
Eleanor Bownass 5
Bessie Bownass 4
Edward Bownass 4
Ellen Bownass 4
Frank Bownass 4
Arthur Bownass 3
Martha Bownass 3

Bownass Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Bowness 86% 4,419
2 Bownass 100% 373
3 Bownas 86% 302

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The surname Bownass is the 2nd most popular variant of Bowness.

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