Cayer 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 4
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 3
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 3
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
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 1
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 4
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 1

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

Cayer Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Cayer family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 3
Monthly Nurse 1
Sawyer 1
Common Carrier 1
Farm Servant 1
Butcher 1
Butcher's Daughter 1
Butcher's Wife 1
Servant 1
Retired Labourer 1
School Teacher 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Cayer

Name Census Frequency
Mary Cayer 12
John Cayer 11
William Cayer 8
Ann Cayer 6
Sarah Cayer 6
Thomas Cayer 6
George Cayer 5
Ada Cayer 3
Alice Cayer 3
Caroline Cayer 3
Elizabeth Cayer 3
Ellen Cayer 3
Emma Cayer 3
Frederick Cayer 3
James Cayer 3
Jane Cayer 3
Joseph Cayer 3
Margaret Cayer 3
Richard Cayer 3
Catherine Cayer 2
Charles Cayer 2
Samuel Cayer 2
Agnes Cayer 1
Albert Cayer 1
Andrew Cayer 1

Cayer Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Cawer 80% 550
2 Cyre 40% 268
3 Coyer 80% 142
4 Cayer 100% 137

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The surname Cayer is the 4th most popular variant of Cawer.

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