Hobes 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 2
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 1
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 27
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 5
Middlesex 2
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 1
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 5
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

Hobes Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Hobes family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 12
Farm Labourer 4
Tailor 2
Tailoress 1
General Servant 1
Labourer 1
Painter 1
Joiner 1
Licensed Victualler Publican 1
Living On Own Means 1
General Labourer 1
Nurse Maid 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Hobes

Name Census Frequency
William Hobes 14
John Hobes 10
Eliza Hobes 7
Mary Hobes 6
George Hobes 5
Henry Hobes 5
James Hobes 5
Charles Hobes 4
Ellen Hobes 4
Jane Hobes 4
Sarah Hobes 4
Elizabeth Hobes 3
Emily Hobes 3
Emma Hobes 3
Ada Hobes 2
Alfred Hobes 2
Ernest Hobes 2
Ethel Hobes 2
Frederick Hobes 2
Gertrude Hobes 2
Margaret Hobes 2
Maria Hobes 2
Susan Hobes 2
Thomas Hobes 2
Walter Hobes 2

Hobes Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Hobbes 83% 1,146
2 Hobs 80% 742
3 Hobes 100% 148
4 Hoobs 60% 148

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The surname Hobes is the 3rd most popular variant of Hobbes.

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