Howkes 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 6
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 2
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 4
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 3
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 1
Northamptonshire 2
Nottinghamshire 2
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 6
Warwickshire 3
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 2
Yorkshire 6

Wales

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

Howkes Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Howkes family

Profession Census Frequency
Labourer 4
Agricultural Labourer 3
Smith 1
Visitor 1
Bricklayer 1
School Mistress 1
Female Servant 1
Male Servant 1
Independent 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Howkes

Name Census Frequency
Mary Howkes 29
John Howkes 24
William Howkes 15
Thomas Howkes 14
Elizabeth Howkes 11
Henry Howkes 9
George Howkes 8
Charles Howkes 7
James Howkes 7
Ann Howkes 6
Eliza Howkes 6
Ernest Howkes 6
Hannah Howkes 6
Albert Howkes 5
Arthur Howkes 5
Frederick Howkes 5
Samuel Howkes 5
Sarah Howkes 5
Emma Howkes 4
Caroline Howkes 3
Catherine Howkes 3
Edmund Howkes 3
Edward Howkes 3
Emily Howkes 3
Jonathan Howkes 3

Howkes Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Hawkes 83% 29,362
2 Hawks 67% 6,400
3 Howkes 100% 280
4 Hawkis 67% 133

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The surname Howkes is the 3rd most popular variant of Hawkes.

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