Odwyer 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 1
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 3
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 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

Odwyer Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Odwyer family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 3
Rope Spinner 2
Labour Faccdry 1
Licentiate Royal College Surgeons Dublin Licentiat 1
Schoolmistress 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Odwyer

Name Census Frequency
Mary Odwyer 17
John Odwyer 9
Patrick Odwyer 8
Thomas Odwyer 7
William Odwyer 7
Annie Odwyer 6
James Odwyer 6
Richard Odwyer 4
Winifred Odwyer 4
Bridget Odwyer 2
Catherine Odwyer 2
Edmund Odwyer 2
Ellen Odwyer 2
Florence Odwyer 2
Hannah Odwyer 2
Jane Odwyer 2
Martin Odwyer 2
Michael Odwyer 2
Aileen Odwyer 1
Albert Odwyer 1
Alfred Odwyer 1
Alice Odwyer 1
Bobbie Odwyer 1
Caroline Odwyer 1
Charles Odwyer 1

Odwyer Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Dwyer 83% 9,849
2 Dwyre 50% 263
3 O'dwyer 86% 223
4 Dewyer 67% 216
5 Dawyer 67% 136
6 Odwyer 100% 129

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The surname Odwyer is the 6th most popular variant of Dwyer.

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