Chafe 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 1
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 7
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 4
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 1
Lancashire 7
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 2
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 0
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

Chafe Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Chafe family

Profession Census Frequency
School 2
Private Means 1
Servant 1
Living On Old Age Pension 1
Insurance Superintendent 1
General Servant (domestic) 1
Carman 1
Labourer (domestic) 1
Clerk 1
Warehouseman 1
Warehouseman Drapery 1
Boarding House Keeper 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Chafe

Name Census Frequency
Mary Chafe 10
John Chafe 8
William Chafe 8
Sarah Chafe 7
Elizabeth Chafe 6
Thomas Chafe 6
George Chafe 5
Ann Chafe 4
Clara Chafe 4
Henry Chafe 4
Eliza Chafe 3
Joseph Chafe 3
Annie Chafe 2
Bessie Chafe 2
Charles Chafe 2
Edwin Chafe 2
Emily Chafe 2
Frederick Chafe 2
Hannah Chafe 2
James Chafe 2
Jane Chafe 2
Margaret Chafe 2
Ralph Chafe 2
Sidney Chafe 2
Walter Chafe 2

Chafe Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Chaffe 83% 1,950
2 Chafe 100% 130

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The surname Chafe is the 2nd most popular variant of Chaffe.

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