Shift 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 5
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 4
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 1
Warwickshire 2
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 6

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

Shift Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Shift family

Profession Census Frequency
Grocer 2
General Servant Domestic 1
Chemical Works Labourer 1
General Grocer 1
Coal Miner Hewer 1
Farmer Also Grocer 1
Coal Carman 1
General Domestic 1
Laundress 1
Machinist 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Shift

Name Census Frequency
William Shift 8
Ann Shift 6
Elizabeth Shift 6
George Shift 6
James Shift 6
Charles Shift 5
Thomas Shift 5
Mary Shift 4
Sarah Shift 4
Alice Shift 3
Catherine Shift 3
Eliza Shift 3
Florence Shift 3
Hannah Shift 3
John Shift 3
Joseph Shift 3
Alfred Shift 2
Annie Shift 2
Charlotte Shift 2
Edward Shift 2
Emily Shift 2
Jane Shift 2
Kate Shift 2
Margaret Shift 2
Richard Shift 2

Shift Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Shafto 67% 436
2 Shaftoe 57% 348
3 Shaft 80% 186
4 Shift 100% 123

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The surname Shift is the 4th most popular variant of Shafto.

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