Friers 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 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 3
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 1
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

Friers Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Friers family

Profession Census Frequency
Female Servant 3
None 1
Laundress 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Friers

Name Census Frequency
Mary Friers 16
John Friers 13
Ann Friers 8
William Friers 8
Elizabeth Friers 7
George Friers 6
Sarah Friers 6
Alice Friers 5
Charles Friers 5
Jane Friers 5
Margaret Friers 5
Robert Friers 5
Hannah Friers 4
James Friers 4
Stephen Friers 4
Annie Friers 3
Jacob Friers 3
Kate Friers 3
Martha Friers 3
Samuel Friers 3
Andrew Friers 2
Arthur Friers 2
Dorothy Friers 2
Edward Friers 2
Eliza Friers 2

Friers Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Ferris 33% 18,213
2 Farris 33% 3,188
3 Farries 57% 447
4 Ferries 57% 372
5 Frears 67% 363
6 Ferres 50% 296
7 Friars 83% 245
8 Friers 100% 185
9 Farras 33% 163
10 Farres 50% 121
11 Forris 33% 106

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The surname Friers is the 8th most popular variant of Ferris.

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