Jenkes 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 1
Herefordshire 1
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 7
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 7
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
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

Jenkes Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Jenkes family

Profession Census Frequency
Servant 1
House Servant 1
Dock Labourer 1
General Servant 1
Forge Man 1
Forge Roler 1
Labourer 1
Nailor 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Jenkes

Name Census Frequency
Mary Jenkes 15
John Jenkes 12
William Jenkes 11
Joseph Jenkes 10
Elizabeth Jenkes 9
Thomas Jenkes 9
Sarah Jenkes 7
George Jenkes 6
Jane Jenkes 5
Edward Jenkes 4
Emma Jenkes 4
Ann Jenkes 3
Frank Jenkes 3
Agnes Jenkes 2
Alfred Jenkes 2
Amelia Jenkes 2
Eliza Jenkes 2
Ernest Jenkes 2
Hannah Jenkes 2
Harold Jenkes 2
James Jenkes 2
Louis Jenkes 2
Lucy Jenkes 2
Maria Jenkes 2
Robert Jenkes 2

Jenkes Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Jinks 67% 7,793
2 Jenks 83% 7,471
3 Jonks 67% 320
4 Jenkes 100% 163
5 Janks 67% 133

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The surname Jenkes is the 4th most popular variant of Jinks.

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