Cawe 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 1
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 5
Essex 1
Gloucestershire 3
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 1
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 2

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

Cawe Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Cawe family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 3
Farrier 1
Boy 1
Labourer 1
Retired Coach & Wheat Wright 1
Coachman Domestic 1
Domestic Servant 1
General Servant Domestic 1
Coach Wheeler 1
Cook Domestic 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Cawe

Name Census Frequency
John Cawe 19
William Cawe 11
Mary Cawe 9
George Cawe 8
Elizabeth Cawe 7
James Cawe 7
Sarah Cawe 7
Margaret Cawe 6
Thomas Cawe 6
Robert Cawe 5
Ann Cawe 4
Annie Cawe 4
Charles Cawe 4
Jane Cawe 4
Samuel Cawe 4
Emma Cawe 3
Agnes Cawe 2
Andrew Cawe 2
Charlotte Cawe 2
Ellen Cawe 2
Emily Cawe 2
Frances Cawe 2
Francis Cawe 2
Henry Cawe 2
Jessie Cawe 2

Cawe Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Cave 75% 29,216
2 Cowie 60% 4,693
3 Cowe 75% 2,299
4 Cow 50% 928
5 Caw 75% 764
6 Cawe 100% 188

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The surname Cawe is the 6th most popular variant of Cave.

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