Perter 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 6
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 1
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 3
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 5
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 4
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Perter Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Perter family

Profession Census Frequency
Lace Maker 3
Male Servant 1
Female Servant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Perter

Name Census Frequency
Mary Perter 14
William Perter 8
Elizabeth Perter 7
James Perter 7
John Perter 7
Ann Perter 6
Sarah Perter 6
Edward Perter 5
Emily Perter 5
Hannah Perter 5
Joseph Perter 5
Thomas Perter 5
Alice Perter 4
Charles Perter 4
Charlotte Perter 4
Jane Perter 4
Albert Perter 3
Emma Perter 3
Frederick Perter 3
Martha Perter 3
Richard Perter 3
Robert Perter 3
Christopher Perter 2
Daisy Perter 2
Edgar Perter 2

Perter Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Porter 83% 153,311
2 Prater 67% 2,928
3 Parter 83% 2,242
4 Portor 67% 999
5 Preater 71% 872
6 Peartree 63% 768
7 Priter 67% 191
8 Proter 67% 191
9 Perter 100% 183
10 Preator 57% 102

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The surname Perter is the 9th most popular variant of Porter.

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