Cleft 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 6
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 3
Gloucestershire 10
Hampshire 10
Herefordshire 5
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 3
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 1
Northamptonshire 1
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 1
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 2
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 2
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 7

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

Cleft Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Cleft family

Profession Census Frequency
Labourer 4
Agricultural Labourer 3
Cloth Woollen Weaver 2
Cotton Weaver 2
Performer 1
Traveller 1
Plate Layer 1
Silk Weaver 1
Lab 1
Ostler 1
Grocer 1
Fire Brick Manufacturer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Cleft

Name Census Frequency
Mary Cleft 41
William Cleft 31
Elizabeth Cleft 24
Thomas Cleft 22
John Cleft 19
Sarah Cleft 17
Charles Cleft 15
George Cleft 14
Ellen Cleft 11
James Cleft 11
Alice Cleft 10
Joseph Cleft 9
Annie Cleft 7
Eliza Cleft 7
Henry Cleft 7
Margaret Cleft 7
Samuel Cleft 7
Emma Cleft 6
Jane Cleft 6
Rhoda Cleft 6
Ann Cleft 5
Louisa Cleft 5
Caroline Cleft 4
Robert Cleft 4
Walter Cleft 4

Cleft Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Clift 80% 11,452
2 Cleft 100% 439
3 Cluft 80% 139

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The surname Cleft is the 2nd most popular variant of Clift.

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