Shopley 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 10
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 8
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 7
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 1
Oxfordshire 1
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

Shopley Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Shopley family

Profession Census Frequency
Joiner 3
Female Servant 2
Cotton Weaver 1
Ston Mason Journeyman 1
Hatter 1
Ag Labourer 1
Male Servant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Shopley

Name Census Frequency
Mary Shopley 15
William Shopley 14
Elizabeth Shopley 11
Thomas Shopley 11
James Shopley 9
John Shopley 7
Sarah Shopley 7
Charles Shopley 6
Hannah Shopley 6
Ellen Shopley 5
Robert Shopley 5
Alice Shopley 3
Ann Shopley 3
Eliza Shopley 3
Frederick Shopley 3
Jane Shopley 3
Joseph Shopley 3
Alfred Shopley 2
Annie Shopley 2
Betty Shopley 2
Emma Shopley 2
Ethel Shopley 2
George Shopley 2
Jonathan Shopley 2
Joshua Shopley 2

Shopley Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Shipley 86% 19,960
2 Shepley 86% 5,759
3 Shapley 86% 2,244
4 Shiply 71% 302
5 Shopley 100% 174

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The surname Shopley is the 5th most popular variant of Shipley.

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