Sewes 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 5
Gloucestershire 1
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 2
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 1
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 3
Suffolk 0
Somerset 5
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
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 1

Sewes Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Sewes family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 3
Agricultural Labourer 2
Cloth Worker 2
General Servant 1
Diet Nurse 1
Domestic Servant 1
Umbrella Manufacture 1
Farm Labourer 1
Farm Servant Indoor 1
Weaver 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Sewes

Name Census Frequency
John Sewes 8
Elizabeth Sewes 6
Mary Sewes 6
William Sewes 6
Ann Sewes 5
Edward Sewes 5
Henry Sewes 5
Sarah Sewes 5
Thomas Sewes 5
Arthur Sewes 4
Charles Sewes 4
Jane Sewes 3
Joseph Sewes 3
Catherine Sewes 2
David Sewes 2
Eliza Sewes 2
Emily Sewes 2
Frederick Sewes 2
Martha Sewes 2
Alfred Sewes 1
Alice Sewes 1
Amelia Sewes 1
Anne Sewes 1
Beatrice Sewes 1
Benjamin Sewes 1

Sewes Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Sewis 80% 605
2 Saws 60% 190
3 Sawes 80% 123
4 Sewes 100% 114
5 Swis 60% 109

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The surname Sewes is the 4th most popular variant of Sewis.

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