Prester 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 2
Leicestershire 1
Lincolnshire 0
London 4
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 5
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 1
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 1
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 3
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 4

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

Prester Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Prester family

Profession Census Frequency
Independent 3
Home Servt 2
Woollen Labourer 2
Frame Work Knitter 1
Commision Agent 1
Male Servant 1
Female Servant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Prester

Name Census Frequency
John Prester 22
Mary Prester 15
William Prester 15
Thomas Prester 9
George Prester 8
James Prester 8
Sarah Prester 8
Annie Prester 7
Ellen Prester 7
Emma Prester 7
Alice Prester 6
Elizabeth Prester 6
Margaret Prester 6
Robert Prester 6
Arthur Prester 5
Frederick Prester 5
Henry Prester 5
Joseph Prester 5
Martha Prester 5
Eliza Prester 4
Florence Prester 4
Jane Prester 4
Maria Prester 4
Ada Prester 3
Charles Prester 3

Prester Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Proster 86% 426
2 Prester 100% 293
3 Prostor 71% 186
4 Prestor 86% 112

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The surname Prester is the 2nd most popular variant of Proster.

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