Coway 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 8
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 3
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 3
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 11
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Coway Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Coway family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 8
Labourer 2
Agricultural Labourer 1
Coalminer 1
Miner 1
Coal Hauiler 1
Iron Stone Miner 1
Seamans Wife R N 1
Soldier 1
Ironer 1
Cook Domestic Servant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Coway

Name Census Frequency
John Coway 13
Mary Coway 10
James Coway 8
Sarah Coway 8
William Coway 8
Elizabeth Coway 6
Thomas Coway 6
Catherine Coway 5
Jane Coway 5
George Coway 4
Hannah Coway 4
Henry Coway 4
Robert Coway 4
Alice Coway 3
Ann Coway 3
Annie Coway 3
Charles Coway 3
Eliza Coway 3
Ellen Coway 3
Frederick Coway 3
Lawrence Coway 3
Margaret Coway 3
Michael Coway 3
Patrick Coway 3
Ada Coway 2

Coway Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Cowey 80% 2,474
2 Coway 100% 167

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The surname Coway is the 2nd most popular variant of Cowey.

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