Canovan 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 1
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 1
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 7
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 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Canovan Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Canovan family

Profession Census Frequency
Cook Domestic Servant 1
Scholar 1
Card Room Jobber 1
General Servant 1
Labourer 1
Speed Tenter 1
Waggoner 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Canovan

Name Census Frequency
John Canovan 18
Mary Canovan 16
James Canovan 10
Michael Canovan 9
Elizabeth Canovan 8
Ellen Canovan 7
Thomas Canovan 6
Ann Canovan 5
Patrick Canovan 5
Bridget Canovan 4
Catherine Canovan 3
Edward Canovan 3
Hannah Canovan 3
Jane Canovan 3
Margaret Canovan 3
William Canovan 3
Allen Canovan 2
Annie Canovan 2
Eliza Canovan 2
Florence Canovan 2
Frances Canovan 2
Frank Canovan 2
Gabriel Canovan 2
Joseph Canovan 2
Richard Canovan 2

Canovan Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Canavan 86% 1,449
2 Canvin 71% 400
3 Canovan 100% 160

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The surname Canovan is the 3rd most popular variant of Canavan.

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