Dye Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 1
Buckinghamshire 6
Berkshire 10
Cambridgeshire 45
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 23
Cornwall 8
Cumberland 2
Derbyshire 23
Devon 13
Dorset 2
Durham 50
Essex 60
Gloucestershire 10
Hampshire 28
Herefordshire 2
Hertfordshire 27
Huntingdonshire (and Rutland) 8
Isle of Man 0
Kent 64
Lancashire 95
Leicestershire 36
Lincolnshire 38
London 463
Middlesex 37
Northumberland 12
Norfolk 813
Northamptonshire 2
Nottinghamshire 23
Oxfordshire 2
Rutland (and Huntingdonshire) 8
Shropshire 1
Suffolk 153
Somerset 3
Surrey 24
Sussex 17
Staffordshire 19
Warwickshire 7
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 2
Yorkshire 179

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 9
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 6
Radnorshire 0

Dye Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Dye family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 378
Agricultural Labourer 57
General Labourer 40
Dress Maker 23
Living On Own Means 21
Carpenter 20
General Domestic Servant 17
Coal Miner 16
Domestic Servant 16
Laundress 15
General Servant 14
Ag Labourer 14
Labourer 13
General Servant Domestic 11
Shoe Maker 11
Gardener 10
Farmer 9
Ag Lab 9
Printer 8
Tailor 8
Brick Layer 8
Butcher 7
House Keeper 7
Char Woman 7
Blacksmith 7

Most Frequent Forenames for Dye

Name Census Frequency
William Dye 1,008
Mary Dye 961
John Dye 807
Elizabeth Dye 688
James Dye 600
George Dye 519
Charles Dye 504
Sarah Dye 501
Robert Dye 494
Alice Dye 327
Henry Dye 306
Ann Dye 297
Thomas Dye 273
Eliza Dye 262
Alfred Dye 257
Edward Dye 238
Arthur Dye 223
Emma Dye 221
Jane Dye 201
Ellen Dye 190
Hannah Dye 180
Frederick Dye 177
Samuel Dye 162
Maria Dye 160
Susan Dye 159

Dye Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Day 33% 209,871
2 Dye 100% 16,222
3 Adey 25% 6,886
4 Eady 25% 5,272
5 Doy 33% 2,588
6 Edey 25% 1,928
7 Dey 33% 1,818
8 Ody 33% 1,746
9 Udy 33% 1,027
10 Odey 25% 953
11 Edy 33% 927
12 Ady 33% 844
13 Adye 75% 589
14 Daye 75% 426
15 Oday 25% 387
16 Doye 75% 379
17 Edye 75% 314
18 Eadey 20% 209
19 Eudey 20% 163
20 Die 67% 161
21 Aday 25% 154
22 Aedy 25% 108
23 Duy 33% 108
24 Deay 25% 105

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The surname Dye is the 2nd most popular variant of Day.

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