Payce 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 1
Hampshire 1
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 7
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 3
Suffolk 0
Somerset 4
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 1
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 8
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Payce Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Payce family

Profession Census Frequency
Female Servant 3
Farmer 2
Blacksmith 1
Ivory Carver 1
Agricultural Labourer 1
Independent 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Payce

Name Census Frequency
William Payce 22
Mary Payce 19
Elizabeth Payce 17
John Payce 17
George Payce 10
Jane Payce 9
Sarah Payce 9
Thomas Payce 9
Charles Payce 8
Frederick Payce 6
Richard Payce 6
Alfred Payce 5
Margaret Payce 5
Albert Payce 4
Anne Payce 4
Edith Payce 4
Eliza Payce 4
Francis Payce 4
Henry Payce 4
James Payce 4
Ada Payce 3
Alice Payce 3
Ann Payce 3
Caroline Payce 3
David Payce 3

Payce Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Pace 80% 9,699
2 Paice 80% 8,418
3 Payce 100% 276
4 Poyce 80% 105

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The surname Payce is the 3rd most popular variant of Pace.

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