Shrift 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 4
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 1
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 8
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 1
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 2
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 1
Surrey 0
Sussex 1
Staffordshire 5
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 1
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Shrift Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Shrift family

Profession Census Frequency
School 8
Bricklayers Labourer 1
General Servant (domestic) 1
Nil (army Pensioner) 1
Baliff On Farm 1
Dairy Works 1
Home 1
Grocer Shop Assistant 1
Cook (domestic) 1
Coachman Domestic 1
Sick Nurse 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Shrift

Name Census Frequency
William Shrift 8
Edward Shrift 7
Thomas Shrift 7
George Shrift 6
John Shrift 6
Arthur Shrift 5
Jane Shrift 5
Elizabeth Shrift 4
Hannah Shrift 3
Mary Shrift 3
Robert Shrift 3
Sarah Shrift 3
Alice Shrift 2
Edna Shrift 2
Eliza Shrift 2
Emily Shrift 2
Henry Shrift 2
James Shrift 2
Martha Shrift 2
Alfred Shrift 1
Ann Shrift 1
Annie Shrift 1
Archibald Shrift 1
Barrett Shrift 1
Caroline Shrift 1

Shrift Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Asheroft 63% 1,794
2 Shrift 100% 106

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The surname Shrift is the 2nd most popular variant of Asheroft.

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