Dowdale 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 16
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 5
Dorset 7
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 1
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 2
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 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

Dowdale Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Dowdale family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 3
Domestic Servant 2
Pilot 1
Dressmaker 1
Pipe Maker 1
Shoe Maker 1
Female Servant 1
Dress Maker 1
Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Dowdale

Name Census Frequency
Mary Dowdale 9
William Dowdale 9
James Dowdale 8
Elizabeth Dowdale 6
John Dowdale 5
Edward Dowdale 4
Jane Dowdale 4
Alice Dowdale 3
Charles Dowdale 3
Emily Dowdale 3
Samuel Dowdale 3
Ann Dowdale 2
Arthur Dowdale 2
Eliza Dowdale 2
Ernest Dowdale 2
George Dowdale 2
Hannah Dowdale 2
Thomas Dowdale 2
Alfred Dowdale 1
Bridget Dowdale 1
Charlotte Dowdale 1
David Dowdale 1
Delia Dowdale 1
Dinah Dowdale 1
Edwin Dowdale 1

Dowdale Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Dowdle 86% 1,133
2 Dowdale 100% 104

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The surname Dowdale is the 2nd most popular variant of Dowdle.

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