Dowdon 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 3
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 5
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 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

Dowdon Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Dowdon family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 3
Domestic Servant 1
Teacher 1
Labourer 1
Agricultural Labourer Wife 1
Scholar 1
House Keeper 1
Annuitant 1
Housemaid 1
Cook 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Dowdon

Name Census Frequency
Sarah Dowdon 11
William Dowdon 11
Mary Dowdon 8
Ann Dowdon 5
Elizabeth Dowdon 5
John Dowdon 5
Annie Dowdon 4
George Dowdon 4
Jane Dowdon 4
Richard Dowdon 4
Charles Dowdon 3
Dorothy Dowdon 3
Frederick Dowdon 3
James Dowdon 3
Louisa Dowdon 3
Robert Dowdon 3
Thomas Dowdon 3
Edith Dowdon 2
Fanny Dowdon 2
Harry Dowdon 2
Henry Dowdon 2
Margaret Dowdon 2
Maria Dowdon 2
Martha Dowdon 2
Violet Dowdon 2

Dowdon Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Dowden 83% 5,307
2 Dawden 67% 150
3 Dowdon 100% 130

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The surname Dowdon is the 3rd most popular variant of Dowden.

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