Owes 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 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 11
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 3
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 1
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Owes Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Owes family

Profession Census Frequency
Shoe Maker Daur 4
Scholar 2
Codwainer 1
Pauper 1
Baker 1
Shoe Maker 1
Shoe Maker Son 1
Shoe Maker Wife 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Owes

Name Census Frequency
Mary Owes 9
John Owes 7
William Owes 7
Florence Owes 6
Sarah Owes 6
Elizabeth Owes 5
Joseph Owes 5
Thomas Owes 5
Ann Owes 4
Henry Owes 4
Susan Owes 4
Arthur Owes 3
Charles Owes 3
David Owes 3
Eliza Owes 3
Ellen Owes 3
Emily Owes 3
James Owes 3
Lily Owes 3
Richard Owes 3
Rose Owes 3
Wybrow Owes 3
Alice Owes 2
Sabina Owes 2
Walter Owes 2

Owes Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Wise 25% 42,003
2 Wase 25% 1,271
3 Weis 50% 180
4 Ewes 75% 163
5 Owes 100% 157
6 Weise 40% 124

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The surname Owes is the 5th most popular variant of Wise.

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