Shortt Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

Devon 2
Hampshire 1
Hunts and Rutland 0
Kent 2
London 3
Warwickshire 5
Westmorland 1
Anglesey 0
Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Brecknockshire 0
Berkshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Gloucestershire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
Middlesex 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Shortt Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Shortt family

Profession Census Frequency
Waterman 2
Sh Draper 1
Army 1
Stone Mason 1
Journeyman Shoe Maker 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Shortt

Name Census Frequency
John Shortt 46
William Shortt 34
Mary Shortt 29
Thomas Shortt 23
Charles Shortt 21
Elizabeth Shortt 17
Ellen Shortt 16
George Shortt 16
Joseph Shortt 16
Annie Shortt 15
Margaret Shortt 14
Emily Shortt 12
Edward Shortt 11
Francis Shortt 11
Henry Shortt 10
Alfred Shortt 9
James Shortt 9
Arthur Shortt 8
Hannah Shortt 7
Jessie Shortt 7
Robert Shortt 6
Emma Shortt 5
Minnie Shortt 5
Ralph Shortt 5
Walter Shortt 5

Shortt Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Short 83% 80,428
2 Shortt 100% 602
3 Sherett 71% 419
4 Sheratt 71% 245
5 Shorte 83% 165
6 Sharatt 71% 161

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The surname Shortt is the 2nd most popular variant of Short.

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