Nowel 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 1
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 1
Dorset 0
Durham 1
Essex 1
Gloucestershire 1
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
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 0
Warwickshire 1
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 3

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

Nowel Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Nowel family

Profession Census Frequency
Maker Up For Yarn Merchant 2
Nurse Girl 1
School 1
Hairdressers Assistant 1
Formerly General Domestic Servant 1
Hawker 1
Wherryman 1
Engine Tiller 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Nowel

Name Census Frequency
John Nowel 55
Mary Nowel 44
William Nowel 43
Sarah Nowel 35
Thomas Nowel 34
Ann Nowel 31
James Nowel 22
George Nowel 20
Richard Nowel 17
Ellen Nowel 15
Henry Nowel 15
Margaret Nowel 15
Jane Nowel 14
Joseph Nowel 14
Elizabeth Nowel 12
Hannah Nowel 10
Walter Nowel 10
Alice Nowel 9
Charles Nowel 8
Eliza Nowel 8
Maria Nowel 8
Martha Nowel 8
Robert Nowel 8
Bridget Nowel 6
Emma Nowel 6

Nowel Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Nowell 83% 11,512
2 Newel 80% 674
3 Nowel 100% 650

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The surname Nowel is the 3rd most popular variant of Nowell.

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