Flat 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 1
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 2
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 1
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 3
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 1
London 3
Middlesex 2
Northumberland 1
Norfolk 6
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 5
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 2
Staffordshire 1
Warwickshire 0
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 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Flat Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Flat family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 6
Female Servant 4
Male Servant 2
Independent 2
Straw Platter 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Flat

Name Census Frequency
Mary Flat 20
William Flat 16
John Flat 14
George Flat 10
Ann Flat 9
Sarah Flat 9
James Flat 8
Charles Flat 7
Elizabeth Flat 6
Samuel Flat 6
Thomas Flat 6
Alice Flat 5
Alfred Flat 4
Frederick Flat 4
Joseph Flat 4
Joshua Flat 4
Robert Flat 4
Caroline Flat 3
Charlotte Flat 3
David Flat 3
Emma Flat 3
Fanny Flat 3
Frank Flat 3
Hannah Flat 3
Martha Flat 3

Flat Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Fleet 60% 14,526
2 Flatt 80% 5,292
3 Float 80% 957
4 Floate 67% 512
5 Flute 60% 409
6 Felt 50% 311
7 Flat 100% 228
8 Flut 75% 110
9 Filt 50% 107

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The surname Flat is the 7th most popular variant of Fleet.

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