Shafe Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

Hunts and Rutland 0
Kent 1
Lancashire 1
London 1
Middlesex 3
Anglesey 0
Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Brecknockshire 0
Berkshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Shafe Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Shafe family

Profession Census Frequency
Piecer 1
Copper Plate Maker 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Shafe

Name Census Frequency
Mary Shafe 17
William Shafe 16
Charles Shafe 12
Elizabeth Shafe 11
Thomas Shafe 11
George Shafe 10
Edward Shafe 8
James Shafe 8
Jane Shafe 8
John Shafe 8
Emma Shafe 5
Frederick Shafe 5
Sarah Shafe 5
Albert Shafe 4
Alfred Shafe 4
Annie Shafe 4
Clara Shafe 4
Ernest Shafe 4
Harry Shafe 4
Lucy Shafe 4
Robert Shafe 4
Samuel Shafe 4
Henry Shafe 3
Joseph Shafe 3
Maud Shafe 3

Shafe Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Sheaf 60% 1,123
2 Shafe 100% 267

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The surname Shafe is the 2nd most popular variant of Sheaf.

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