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

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

Dovers Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Dovers family

Profession Census Frequency
Woollen Manufacturer 3
Annuitant 2
Scholar 2
Laborer Ironworks 1
Solicitor Managing Clerk 1
Lab 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Dovers

Name Census Frequency
William Dovers 16
Mary Dovers 12
George Dovers 10
Elizabeth Dovers 8
Grace Dovers 5
James Dovers 5
Jane Dovers 5
Alice Dovers 4
Gertrude Dovers 4
John Dovers 4
Richard Dovers 4
Sarah Dovers 4
Thomas Dovers 4
Edward Dovers 3
Frank Dovers 3
Harriet Dovers 3
Arthur Dovers 2
Charlotte Dovers 2
Emma Dovers 2
Hannah Dovers 2
Henrietta Dovers 2
Henry Dovers 2
Martha Dovers 2
Robert Dovers 2
Rosetta Dovers 2

Dovers Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Divers 83% 1,812
2 Devries 43% 285
3 Devers 83% 276
4 Davers 83% 229
5 Dovers 100% 143

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The surname Dovers is the 5th most popular variant of Divers.

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