Heness 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 2
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 6
Middlesex 3
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 6

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

Heness Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Heness family

Profession Census Frequency
Worker As Feather Mills 2
Living On Own Means 1
Laundress 1
No Occupation 1
Canwasing Agent Portsmouth Free Press 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Heness

Name Census Frequency
Mary Heness 15
Richard Heness 12
Sarah Heness 10
George Heness 9
Samuel Heness 7
Thomas Heness 7
Ann Heness 5
Benjamin Heness 5
William Heness 5
Eliza Heness 4
Elizabeth Heness 4
Albert Heness 3
Florence Heness 3
Frederick Heness 3
Leonard Heness 3
Louisa Heness 3
Maria Heness 3
Susan Heness 3
Ada Heness 2
Alfred Heness 2
Alice Heness 2
Arthur Heness 2
Caroline Heness 2
Cecil Heness 2
Charles Heness 2

Heness Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Honess 83% 1,783
2 Heanes 67% 1,130
3 Heans 50% 268
4 Henes 83% 240
5 Heness 100% 149
6 Henness 86% 107

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The surname Heness is the 5th most popular variant of Honess.

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