Nowells 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 1
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 1
London 0
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 0
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

Nowells Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Nowells family

Profession Census Frequency
Coal Miner 1
General Domestic Servant 1
Black Smith 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Nowells

Name Census Frequency
John Nowells 17
Mary Nowells 13
William Nowells 11
Ann Nowells 9
Alice Nowells 8
Elizabeth Nowells 8
Jane Nowells 8
Thomas Nowells 8
Sarah Nowells 7
Joseph Nowells 6
Catherine Nowells 5
James Nowells 5
Arthur Nowells 4
Charles Nowells 4
Evan Nowells 4
George Nowells 4
Henry Nowells 4
Margaret Nowells 4
Alfred Nowells 3
Annie Nowells 3
Eliza Nowells 3
Samuel Nowells 3
Susan Nowells 3
Albert Nowells 2
Charlotte Nowells 2

Nowells Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Nowells 100% 224
2 Newells 86% 124

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