Sheap 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 2
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 8
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 1
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 1
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 1
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 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Sheap Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Sheap family

Profession Census Frequency
Apprentice 1
Farm Labourer 1
Agricultural Labourer 1
Reading 1
Wife 1
House Servant 1
Pauper Agricultural Labourer's Widow 1
Parish Relief 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Sheap

Name Census Frequency
Mary Sheap 20
John Sheap 14
Elizabeth Sheap 13
William Sheap 13
Thomas Sheap 12
Sarah Sheap 9
Ann Sheap 7
Charles Sheap 6
James Sheap 6
Henry Sheap 5
Annie Sheap 4
George Sheap 4
Hannah Sheap 4
Jane Sheap 4
Louisa Sheap 4
Maria Sheap 4
Ellen Sheap 3
Emily Sheap 3
Fanny Sheap 3
Francis Sheap 3
Harriet Sheap 3
Joseph Sheap 3
Margaret Sheap 3
Robert Sheap 3
Alice Sheap 2

Sheap Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Ship 60% 4,036
2 Shape 60% 562
3 Shop 60% 350
4 Sheap 100% 234
5 Sheep 80% 192
6 Shap 80% 142
7 Shope 40% 114
8 Sheppee 57% 104

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The surname Sheap is the 4th most popular variant of Ship.

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