Geat 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 3
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 1
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
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 7

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

Geat Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Geat family

Profession Census Frequency
Cotton Weaver 2
Miller 2
Male Servant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Geat

Name Census Frequency
William Geat 18
John Geat 17
Mary Geat 15
George Geat 13
Thomas Geat 12
Sarah Geat 9
Elizabeth Geat 8
Henry Geat 8
Charles Geat 6
Emily Geat 6
Frederick Geat 5
Margaret Geat 5
Alfred Geat 4
Alice Geat 4
Eliza Geat 4
Emma Geat 4
Hannah Geat 4
Herbert Geat 4
Jane Geat 4
Martha Geat 4
Samuel Geat 4
Ada Geat 3
Ann Geat 3
Arthur Geat 3
Caroline Geat 3

Geat Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Gate 50% 7,434
2 Agate 40% 3,592
3 Gait 50% 1,588
4 Goat 75% 1,129
5 Gaut 50% 722
6 Guite 40% 571
7 Goate 60% 557
8 Gout 50% 345
9 Geat 100% 257
10 Gouite 33% 222
11 Gaite 40% 169

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The surname Geat is the 9th most popular variant of Gate.

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