Forshew 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 1
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 2
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 1
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 8

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

Forshew Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Forshew family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 4
Living On Her Own Means 1
Miller 1
Photographer 1
Chapel Keeper 1
Dry Sand Peper Moulder 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Forshew

Name Census Frequency
Edward Forshew 10
John Forshew 9
Thomas Forshew 9
William Forshew 6
Annie Forshew 5
Elizabeth Forshew 5
Alice Forshew 4
Enoch Forshew 4
Henry Forshew 4
James Forshew 4
Mary Forshew 4
Charles Forshew 3
Emma Forshew 3
George Forshew 3
Joseph Forshew 3
Sarah Forshew 3
Abraham Forshew 2
Amelia Forshew 2
Anne Forshew 2
Arthur Forshew 2
Bertie Forshew 2
Edwin Forshew 2
Frederick Forshew 2
Jane Forshew 2
Maria Forshew 2

Forshew Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Forshaw 86% 13,282
2 Foreshew 88% 363
3 Farshaw 71% 258
4 Foreshaw 75% 198
5 Forshew 100% 139

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The surname Forshew is the 5th most popular variant of Forshaw.

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