Nears 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 10
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 4
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 17
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

Nears Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Nears family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 6
Scholar 5
Groom 1
Groom Wife 1
Worker 1
Pauper Agricultural Labourer 1
Straw Plaiter 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Nears

Name Census Frequency
William Nears 35
George Nears 29
Charles Nears 20
Mary Nears 19
Eliza Nears 18
Elizabeth Nears 18
James Nears 16
Ellen Nears 15
Henry Nears 13
Sarah Nears 11
Frederick Nears 10
Alice Nears 9
Edward Nears 8
John Nears 8
Alfred Nears 7
Edith Nears 6
Jane Nears 6
Thomas Nears 6
Albert Nears 5
Annie Nears 5
Frank Nears 5
Harry Nears 5
Mabel Nears 5
Matilda Nears 5
Ethel Nears 4

Nears Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Nurse 40% 11,487
2 Noris 40% 590
3 Nares 60% 579
4 Nourse 50% 536
5 Nears 100% 406
6 Norse 40% 162
7 Nooris 50% 132

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The surname Nears is the 5th most popular variant of Nurse.

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