Ruffer 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 6
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 5
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 10
Middlesex 1
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 1
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 2
Staffordshire 0
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

Ruffer Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Ruffer family

Profession Census Frequency
Barber Hair 3
Foreign Banker 1
Head Waiter 1
Journalist 1
Shoe Maker 1
Merchant & Foreign Banker 1
Scholar 1
Domestics 1
Cook Domestic 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Ruffer

Name Census Frequency
Henry Ruffer 10
William Ruffer 10
Mary Ruffer 8
Ann Ruffer 7
John Ruffer 7
Alice Ruffer 4
Elizabeth Ruffer 4
James Ruffer 4
Jane Ruffer 4
Margaret Ruffer 4
Rosa Ruffer 4
Sarah Ruffer 4
Thomas Ruffer 4
Charles Ruffer 3
Ernest Ruffer 3
Frederick Ruffer 3
Joseph Ruffer 3
Mortimer Ruffer 3
Alphonse Ruffer 2
Edith Ruffer 2
Francis Ruffer 2
Harriet Ruffer 2
Harry Ruffer 2
Leonard Ruffer 2
Lucy Ruffer 2

Ruffer Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Ruffer 100% 175
2 Roffer 83% 111

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