Layt 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 1
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 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 5
Middlesex 1
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 9
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 3
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
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

Layt Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Layt family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 2
Mason 2
Widow Of A Stone Mason 1
Stone Mason 1
Farmer Of 48acres 1
Farmers Son 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Layt

Name Census Frequency
Elizabeth Layt 11
George Layt 10
Mary Layt 10
Robert Layt 10
Alfred Layt 7
Ann Layt 7
John Layt 7
Sarah Layt 7
William Layt 7
Edward Layt 6
Albert Layt 5
Jane Layt 5
Charlotte Layt 4
Emma Layt 4
Matilda Layt 4
Thomas Layt 4
Wilfred Layt 4
Annie Layt 3
Arthur Layt 3
Edith Layt 3
James Layt 3
Jonathan Layt 3
Margaret Layt 3
Alice Layt 2
Amelia Layt 2

Layt Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Laight 50% 2,000
2 Late 50% 1,486
3 Leight 33% 970
4 Layte 80% 480
5 Lyte 50% 269
6 Laite 60% 194
7 Layt 100% 189

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The surname Layt is the 7th most popular variant of Laight.

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