Dowry 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 1
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 1
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 2
Devon 8
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire (and Rutland) 1
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 2
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 1
London 2
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 1
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland (and Huntingdonshire) 1
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 1
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 2

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

Dowry Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Dowry family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 3
Char Woman 1
Cotton Reeler 1
Wife Of On India Office 1
Kitchen Maid 1
Hawker 1
Farm Servant 1
Traveller 1
Railway Labourer 1
Carter 1
General Servant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Dowry

Name Census Frequency
William Dowry 13
John Dowry 11
Thomas Dowry 11
Mary Dowry 10
James Dowry 8
Alice Dowry 7
Henry Dowry 7
Elizabeth Dowry 6
Margaret Dowry 6
Ann Dowry 5
Sarah Dowry 5
Albert Dowry 4
George Dowry 4
Jane Dowry 4
Robert Dowry 4
Sophia Dowry 4
Arthur Dowry 3
David Dowry 3
Ellen Dowry 3
Harriett Dowry 3
Alfred Dowry 2
Catherine Dowry 2
Charles Dowry 2
Edward Dowry 2
Eliza Dowry 2

Dowry Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Dewry 80% 281
2 Dowry 100% 188
3 Dewery 67% 129
4 Dowrey 83% 121

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The surname Dowry is the 2nd most popular variant of Dewry.

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