Shails 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 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 5
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 1
Northumberland 0
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 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

Shails Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Shails family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 3
Bricklayer Labourer 1
Health Nurse 1
Farm Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Shails

Name Census Frequency
William Shails 15
Mary Shails 12
Richard Shails 11
Elizabeth Shails 10
Charles Shails 7
George Shails 6
John Shails 6
James Shails 5
Sarah Shails 5
Thomas Shails 5
Martha Shails 4
Ernest Shails 3
Henry Shails 3
Lucy Shails 3
Alfred Shails 2
Ann Shails 2
Annie Shails 2
Emily Shails 2
Fanny Shails 2
Hannah Shails 2
Harry Shails 2
Jane Shails 2
Job Shails 2
Lydia Shails 2
Nathaniel Shails 2

Shails Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Shiels 67% 1,154
2 Shales 67% 860
3 Shailes 86% 666
4 Sheils 83% 510
5 Shiles 67% 272
6 Sheals 67% 225
7 Sheels 67% 173
8 Shails 100% 145
9 Sheales 57% 119
10 Sholes 50% 111

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The surname Shails is the 8th most popular variant of Shiels.

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