Geaves 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 1
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 3
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 2
Hertfordshire 3
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 3
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 1
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

Geaves Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Geaves family

Profession Census Frequency
Independent 3
Female Servant 3
Agricultural Labourer 2
Male Servant 1
Brick Layer 1
School Boy 1
House Carpenter 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Geaves

Name Census Frequency
John Geaves 28
Mary Geaves 28
George Geaves 27
Elizabeth Geaves 22
William Geaves 22
Arthur Geaves 14
Sarah Geaves 13
Thomas Geaves 12
James Geaves 11
Walter Geaves 10
Hannah Geaves 9
Florence Geaves 8
Herbert Geaves 8
Louisa Geaves 8
Margaret Geaves 7
Martha Geaves 7
Richard Geaves 7
Alice Geaves 6
Annie Geaves 6
Charles Geaves 6
Frederick Geaves 6
Henry Geaves 6
Robert Geaves 6
Albert Geaves 5
Samuel Geaves 5

Geaves Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Geeves 83% 2,370
2 Goves 67% 577
3 Geaves 100% 475
4 Jeaves 83% 148
5 Gaves 83% 123
6 Govus 50% 106

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The surname Geaves is the 3rd most popular variant of Geeves.

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