Prayer Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

Hertfordshire 1
Hunts and Rutland 0
London 5
Shropshire 1
Wiltshire 1
Anglesey 0
Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Brecknockshire 0
Berkshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
Middlesex 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Prayer Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Prayer family

Profession Census Frequency
Farrier 1
Saddler 1
Railway Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Prayer

Name Census Frequency
Mary Prayer 13
John Prayer 12
Sarah Prayer 12
William Prayer 12
Elizabeth Prayer 9
Emily Prayer 8
George Prayer 7
Charles Prayer 5
Henry Prayer 5
Alice Prayer 4
Arthur Prayer 4
Edith Prayer 4
Edward Prayer 4
Frederick Prayer 4
Herbert Prayer 4
Louisa Prayer 4
Margaret Prayer 4
Walter Prayer 4
Ann Prayer 3
Eliza Prayer 3
Robert Prayer 3
Thomas Prayer 3
Alexander Prayer 2
Alfred Prayer 2
Benjamin Prayer 2

Prayer Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Pryor 67% 12,842
2 Pryer 83% 5,977
3 Peryer 67% 740
4 Puryer 67% 724
5 Prayer 100% 219
6 Pryar 67% 116

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The surname Prayer is the 5th most popular variant of Pryor.

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