Gurnsey 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 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 5
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 2
Surrey 1
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 1
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

Gurnsey Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Gurnsey family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 2
Cook 1
Medical Student 1
Agricultural Laborers 1
Step Son 1
Carter 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Gurnsey

Name Census Frequency
Charles Gurnsey 20
Mary Gurnsey 16
Alfred Gurnsey 15
William Gurnsey 13
George Gurnsey 10
Henry Gurnsey 10
Sarah Gurnsey 10
Frederick Gurnsey 9
Arthur Gurnsey 8
Elizabeth Gurnsey 8
Emily Gurnsey 8
Thomas Gurnsey 7
James Gurnsey 6
Samuel Gurnsey 6
Amy Gurnsey 5
Edith Gurnsey 5
Herbert Gurnsey 5
Richard Gurnsey 5
Edwin Gurnsey 4
Frank Gurnsey 4
Lucy Gurnsey 4
Maria Gurnsey 4
Caroline Gurnsey 3
Catherine Gurnsey 3
Edward Gurnsey 3

Gurnsey Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Garnsey 86% 616
2 Grunsey 71% 422
3 Gurnsey 100% 298
4 Guernsey 88% 150

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The surname Gurnsey is the 3rd most popular variant of Garnsey.

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