Dorris 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 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 1
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 2
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 4
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 6
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 1
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 1
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

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

Dorris Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Dorris family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 3
Female Servant 1
Independent 1
Plate Glass Grinder 1
Plate Glass Smoother 1
Male Servant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Dorris

Name Census Frequency
William Dorris 28
Mary Dorris 25
John Dorris 22
Thomas Dorris 16
Elizabeth Dorris 15
George Dorris 12
James Dorris 12
Alice Dorris 11
Sarah Dorris 10
Ann Dorris 8
Annie Dorris 8
Charles Dorris 7
Eliza Dorris 6
Ellen Dorris 6
Harry Dorris 6
Henry Dorris 6
Joseph Dorris 6
Margaret Dorris 6
David Dorris 5
Emily Dorris 5
Frederick Dorris 5
Hannah Dorris 5
Jane Dorris 5
Alfred Dorris 4
Charlotte Dorris 4

Dorris Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Darris 83% 1,052
2 Doris 83% 833
3 Dorris 100% 431
4 Darres 67% 363
5 Darries 71% 213
6 Darrs 67% 139

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The surname Dorris is the 3rd most popular variant of Darris.

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