Shown 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 1
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 3
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 1
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 10
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 4
Suffolk 0
Somerset 1
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 3
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 2
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 1
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Shown Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Shown family

Profession Census Frequency
Female Servant 3
Carpenter 2
Labourer 2
Coal Miner Miner Miner 2
Taylor 1
Decker 1
Fs 1
Whitesmith 1
Agricultural Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Shown

Name Census Frequency
Mary Shown 17
Elizabeth Shown 10
William Shown 10
John Shown 7
Edward Shown 6
George Shown 6
Sarah Shown 6
Thomas Shown 6
Ann Shown 4
Arthur Shown 4
Emily Shown 3
Francis Shown 3
Henry Shown 3
Louisa Shown 3
Margaret Shown 3
Alfred Shown 2
Charles Shown 2
Charlotte Shown 2
Frederick Shown 2
Harry Shown 2
Herbert Shown 2
James Shown 2
Kate Shown 2
Martha Shown 2
Susan Shown 2

Shown Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Shone 60% 8,900
2 Ashwin 50% 2,104
3 Shewan 67% 367
4 Shawn 80% 149
5 Shown 100% 149
6 Shewen 67% 101

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The surname Shown is the 5th most popular variant of Shone.

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