Raferty 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 1
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 1
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 13
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 1
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 1
Warwickshire 2
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 3

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

Raferty Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Raferty family

Profession Census Frequency
Labourer 4
Dock Labourer 2
Factory Reeler 1
Limekiler Labourer 1
Cotton Picer 1
Cotton Weaver 1
General Servant 1
House Keeper 1
Machine Maker 1
Scholar 1
Traveller 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Raferty

Name Census Frequency
John Raferty 14
Bridget Raferty 9
James Raferty 9
Mary Raferty 9
Ann Raferty 5
Catherine Raferty 5
Michael Raferty 5
Patrick Raferty 5
Thomas Raferty 5
Margaret Raferty 4
Owen Raferty 3
Alice Raferty 2
Annie Raferty 2
Edmund Raferty 2
Elizabeth Raferty 2
Ellen Raferty 2
George Raferty 2
Jane Raferty 2
William Raferty 2
Agnes Raferty 1
Alfred Raferty 1
Bess Raferty 1
Cathleen Raferty 1
Clark Raferty 1
Denis Raferty 1

Raferty Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Rafferty 88% 5,735
2 Raferty 100% 122

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The surname Raferty is the 2nd most popular variant of Rafferty.

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