Horshaw 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 7
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 7
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 1
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 1
Yorkshire 1

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 2
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Horshaw Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Horshaw family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 6
Interest Of Money 2
Clerks Wife 1
Domestic 1
Labourer 1
Railway Clerk Unemployed 1
Naval Pensioner 1
Parlormaid Domestic 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Horshaw

Name Census Frequency
John Horshaw 17
William Horshaw 13
Mary Horshaw 12
Thomas Horshaw 12
Elizabeth Horshaw 10
Alice Horshaw 9
James Horshaw 9
Jane Horshaw 9
Ann Horshaw 8
Sarah Horshaw 8
Joseph Horshaw 5
Ellen Horshaw 4
George Horshaw 4
Charlotte Horshaw 3
Louisa Horshaw 3
Albert Horshaw 2
Edward Horshaw 2
Emma Horshaw 2
Grace Horshaw 2
Hannah Horshaw 2
Judith Horshaw 2
Alfred Horshaw 1
Andrew Horshaw 1
Anny Horshaw 1
Beatrice Horshaw 1

Horshaw Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Hershaw 86% 1,857
2 Harshaw 86% 1,027
3 Horshaw 100% 171

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The surname Horshaw is the 3rd most popular variant of Hershaw.

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