Gwilym 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 0
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 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 1
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 12
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Gwilym Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Gwilym family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 2
Domestic General Servant 1
Forge Mans Wife 1
Labourer 1
Miller 1
Refiner Tin Works 1
Taylor 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Gwilym

Name Census Frequency
David Gwilym 35
John Gwilym 31
Mary Gwilym 27
William Gwilym 23
Thomas Gwilym 22
Richard Gwilym 21
Elizabeth Gwilym 18
Margaret Gwilym 17
Sarah Gwilym 17
Ann Gwilym 14
Rees Gwilym 10
Catherine Gwilym 7
Alice Gwilym 6
Morgan Gwilym 6
Edith Gwilym 5
Hannah Gwilym 5
James Gwilym 5
Robert Gwilym 5
Edward Gwilym 4
George Gwilym 4
Lizzie Gwilym 4
Martha Gwilym 4
Moses Gwilym 4
Gladys Gwilym 3
Jennet Gwilym 3

Gwilym Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Gwilym 100% 429
2 Gwillym 86% 284

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