Dowens 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 1
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 1
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 2
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 9
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 1
Warwickshire 1
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 1

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

Dowens Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Dowens family

Profession Census Frequency
Servant 1
Private Soldier 12 Regiment 1
Agricultural Labourer 1
Farmer Of 12 Acres 1
Sawyer 1
Scholar 1
House Servant 1
Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Dowens

Name Census Frequency
Mary Dowens 15
William Dowens 15
Thomas Dowens 13
George Dowens 12
Elizabeth Dowens 10
James Dowens 9
John Dowens 8
Robert Dowens 8
Jane Dowens 6
Ann Dowens 5
Annie Dowens 5
Sarah Dowens 5
Ellen Dowens 3
Hannah Dowens 3
Richard Dowens 3
Walter Dowens 3
Albert Dowens 2
Alexander Dowens 2
Alice Dowens 2
Charles Dowens 2
Eliza Dowens 2
Emma Dowens 2
Frank Dowens 2
Frederick Dowens 2
Henrietta Dowens 2

Dowens Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Downs 83% 31,148
2 Downes 67% 26,648
3 Edwins 50% 576
4 Dawns 67% 516
5 Dawnes 50% 365
6 Dowens 100% 200

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The surname Dowens is the 6th most popular variant of Downs.

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