Foreshaw 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 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 4
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 4
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 2
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 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

Foreshaw Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Foreshaw family

Profession Census Frequency
Clerk 2
Inn Keeper 1
Apprentice 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Foreshaw

Name Census Frequency
Robert Foreshaw 14
Mary Foreshaw 10
John Foreshaw 9
William Foreshaw 9
Walter Foreshaw 8
James Foreshaw 7
Jane Foreshaw 7
Alexander Foreshaw 5
Alice Foreshaw 5
Annie Foreshaw 5
Charlotte Foreshaw 5
Margaret Foreshaw 5
Matilda Foreshaw 5
Richard Foreshaw 5
Thomas Foreshaw 5
Edwin Foreshaw 4
Frank Foreshaw 4
Sarah Foreshaw 4
Alfred Foreshaw 3
Benjamin Foreshaw 3
Elizabeth Foreshaw 3
Emily Foreshaw 3
Kate Foreshaw 3
Adelaide Foreshaw 2
Albert Foreshaw 2

Foreshaw Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Forshaw 88% 13,282
2 Foreshew 88% 363
3 Farshaw 75% 258
4 Foreshaw 100% 198
5 Forshew 75% 139

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The surname Foreshaw is the 4th most popular variant of Forshaw.

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