Payter 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 2
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 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 6
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
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 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Payter Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Payter family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 2
Grocer 1
Groom 1
Domestic Servant 1
Parish Clerk Cordwinder Master Employing 1 Man 1
Solicitor's General Clerk 1
Apprentice 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Payter

Name Census Frequency
William Payter 18
John Payter 10
Ann Payter 9
George Payter 8
Mary Payter 8
Elizabeth Payter 7
Emily Payter 7
Thomas Payter 6
Emma Payter 5
Ernest Payter 5
Hannah Payter 5
Henry Payter 5
Jane Payter 5
Richard Payter 5
Edwin Payter 4
Frances Payter 4
James Payter 4
Arthur Payter 3
Eliza Payter 3
Harriet Payter 3
Lucy Payter 3
Theodore Payter 3
Adine Payter 2
Sarah Payter 2
Violet Payter 2

Payter Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Pater 83% 987
2 Payter 100% 195

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The surname Payter is the 2nd most popular variant of Pater.

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