Essex 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 68
Berkshire 10
Cambridgeshire 23
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 1
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 20
Durham 0
Essex 21
Gloucestershire 89
Hampshire 8
Herefordshire 15
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 3
Lancashire 3
Leicestershire 37
Lincolnshire 1
London 209
Middlesex 2
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 1
Northamptonshire 35
Nottinghamshire 4
Oxfordshire 11
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 1
Somerset 2
Surrey 4
Sussex 2
Staffordshire 12
Warwickshire 134
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 12
Worcestershire 16
Yorkshire 2

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 1
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 1
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 8
Pembrokeshire 2
Radnorshire 0

Essex Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Essex family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 94
Agricultural Labourer 26
Scholar At Home 13
House Servant 13
Labourer 13
Laundress 8
At Home 7
Frame Work Knitter 7
Servant 7
Ag Lab 5
Labourer Son 5
Sawyer 5
Carpenter 5
General Servant 5
Stone Mason 5
Farm Labourer 4
Carpenters Son 4
Nurse 4
Seamstress 4
Labourer's Daughter 4
Silk Winder 4
Farmer 4
Plaiter 3
Errand Boy 3
Leather Cutter 3

Most Frequent Forenames for Essex

Name Census Frequency
William Essex 561
Mary Essex 421
John Essex 373
George Essex 334
Elizabeth Essex 314
Thomas Essex 277
James Essex 263
Sarah Essex 258
Charles Essex 190
Henry Essex 172
Ann Essex 150
Edward Essex 126
Ellen Essex 122
Emma Essex 118
Eliza Essex 112
Alice Essex 107
Joseph Essex 100
Annie Essex 97
Richard Essex 94
Frederick Essex 91
Jane Essex 86
Fanny Essex 79
Hannah Essex 75
Albert Essex 70
Samuel Essex 70

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