Sew 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 3
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 10
Huntingdonshire (and Rutland) 1
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 4
Rutland (and Huntingdonshire) 1
Shropshire 2
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 3
Yorkshire 2

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 1
Radnorshire 0

Sew Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Sew family

Profession Census Frequency
Independent 2
Sergeant Royal Mariner 1
Agricultural Labourer 1
Parish Relief 1
On Frame 1
Female Servant 1
General Barmell 1
Table Knife Cutler 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Sew

Name Census Frequency
John Sew 27
William Sew 27
Mary Sew 18
George Sew 17
Thomas Sew 17
Elizabeth Sew 13
Ann Sew 11
James Sew 11
Henry Sew 10
Joseph Sew 7
Sarah Sew 7
Ellen Sew 6
Jane Sew 6
Annie Sew 5
Arthur Sew 5
Emily Sew 5
Robert Sew 5
Anne Sew 4
Eliza Sew 4
Hannah Sew 4
Samuel Sew 4
Susan Sew 4
Walter Sew 4
Ada Sew 3
Alfred Sew 3

Sew Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Saw 67% 5,221
2 Sowe 50% 681
3 Sew 100% 342
4 Sow 67% 253

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The surname Sew is the 3rd most popular variant of Saw.

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