Nave 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 1
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 7
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 2
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 2
Norfolk 1
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 3
Somerset 0
Surrey 1
Sussex 3
Staffordshire 5
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

Nave Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Nave family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 3
Plough Boy 2
Moulders Wife 1
Railway Labourer 1
Tobacconist 1
Tobacconist Wife 1
Book Keeper 1
Coal Miner 1
Cut Nail Manufacturer 1
Agricultural Labourer 1
House Servant 1
Miller 1
Shop Man 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Nave

Name Census Frequency
Mary Nave 31
John Nave 18
William Nave 12
Elizabeth Nave 9
Sarah Nave 9
Thomas Nave 9
Isaac Nave 7
James Nave 7
Robert Nave 7
Ann Nave 6
Edith Nave 5
Eliza Nave 5
Ellen Nave 5
Richard Nave 5
George Nave 4
Henry Nave 4
Joseph Nave 4
Harold Nave 3
Margaret Nave 3
Susan Nave 3
Susannah Nave 3
Albert Nave 2
Alice Nave 2
Annie Nave 2
Catherine Nave 2

Nave Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Neave 80% 7,346
2 Neve 75% 5,359
3 Neeve 60% 1,409
4 Nave 100% 233

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The surname Nave is the 4th most popular variant of Neave.

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