Ferret 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 1
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 5
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 1
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 2
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Ferret Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Ferret family

Profession Census Frequency
Labourer 2
Mariner 1
Male Servant 1
Compositor 1
Student 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Ferret

Name Census Frequency
Mary Ferret 13
William Ferret 12
Elizabeth Ferret 10
John Ferret 9
Charles Ferret 7
George Ferret 7
Thomas Ferret 7
James Ferret 6
Ann Ferret 4
Ellen Ferret 4
Henry Ferret 4
Eliza Ferret 3
Samuel Ferret 3
Susan Ferret 3
Albert Ferret 2
Alice Ferret 2
Arthur Ferret 2
Beatrice Ferret 2
Benjamin Ferret 2
Caroline Ferret 2
Catherine Ferret 2
Marie Ferret 2
Philip Ferret 2
Robert Ferret 2
Stephen Ferret 2

Ferret Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Ferrett 86% 2,229
2 Farrett 71% 1,829
3 Farret 83% 257
4 Ferret 100% 178
5 Farrat 67% 115
6 Frort 50% 112

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The surname Ferret is the 4th most popular variant of Ferrett.

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