Gawer 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 2
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 1
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 2
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 1
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 1
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 9

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

Gawer Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Gawer family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 4
Domestic Servant 1
General Servant 1
Mariner 1
Collar Maker 1
Cook 1
Agricultural Labourer 1
Carrier 1
Collier 1
Formerly Agricultural Labourer 1
Rag Sorter 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Gawer

Name Census Frequency
William Gawer 12
Mary Gawer 9
Henry Gawer 8
James Gawer 8
George Gawer 7
Sarah Gawer 6
Ann Gawer 5
Elizabeth Gawer 4
John Gawer 4
Richard Gawer 4
Edith Gawer 3
Lily Gawer 3
Thomas Gawer 3
Charles Gawer 2
David Gawer 2
Edmund Gawer 2
Eliza Gawer 2
Emily Gawer 2
Frederick Gawer 2
Hannah Gawer 2
Martha Gawer 2
Robert Gawer 2
Rose Gawer 2
Agnes Gawer 1
Albert Gawer 1

Gawer Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Gower 80% 22,681
2 Gowar 60% 491
3 Gawer 100% 143

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The surname Gawer is the 3rd most popular variant of Gower.

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