Shafton 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 1
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
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 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 1

Wales

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

Shafton Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Shafton family

Profession Census Frequency
Cook Domestic 1
Servant (doemstic) 1
Cook (domestic) 1
Police Constable 1
Carter 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Shafton

Name Census Frequency
John Shafton 10
Thomas Shafton 10
William Shafton 10
Elizabeth Shafton 9
James Shafton 9
George Shafton 8
Mary Shafton 8
Jane Shafton 7
Robert Shafton 6
Sarah Shafton 6
Alice Shafton 5
Ann Shafton 5
Eliza Shafton 3
Frederick Shafton 3
Tom Shafton 3
Alfred Shafton 2
Amelia Shafton 2
Emily Shafton 2
Frances Shafton 2
Francis Shafton 2
Hannah Shafton 2
Isabella Shafton 2
Maria Shafton 2
Percy Shafton 2
Samuel Shafton 2

Shafton Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Shaftain 75% 190
2 Shafton 100% 151

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The surname Shafton is the 2nd most popular variant of Shaftain.

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