Shirton 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 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 1
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 2
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 1
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 2
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

Shirton Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Shirton family

Profession Census Frequency
Female Servant 1
Agricultural Labourer 1
Carpet Weaver 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Shirton

Name Census Frequency
William Shirton 13
Ellen Shirton 9
John Shirton 8
Joseph Shirton 7
Sarah Shirton 7
James Shirton 6
Thomas Shirton 6
Agnes Shirton 5
Ann Shirton 5
George Shirton 5
Elizabeth Shirton 4
Jane Shirton 4
Mary Shirton 4
Samuel Shirton 4
Alice Shirton 3
Charles Shirton 3
Herbert Shirton 3
Richard Shirton 3
Walter Shirton 3
Annie Shirton 2
Edith Shirton 2
Edward Shirton 2
Ethel Shirton 2
Hannah Shirton 2
Sidney Shirton 2

Shirton Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Asherton 75% 3,394
2 Shorten 71% 3,068
3 Shorton 86% 1,406
4 Sheraton 75% 1,259
5 Sherton 86% 579
6 Sharton 86% 146
7 Shirton 100% 137
8 Shurton 86% 104

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The surname Shirton is the 7th most popular variant of Asherton.

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