Sifton 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 3
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 2
Devon 0
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 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 2
Warwickshire 2
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

Sifton Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Sifton family

Profession Census Frequency
Cotton Weaver 1
Power Loom Weaver 1
Cotton Winder 1
Pattern Winder 1
Agricultural Labourer 1
Shoemaker 1
Labourer 1
Bredd Seller 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Sifton

Name Census Frequency
William Sifton 16
Mary Sifton 8
George Sifton 7
James Sifton 7
Sarah Sifton 7
Thomas Sifton 7
John Sifton 5
Elizabeth Sifton 4
Harriet Sifton 4
Robert Sifton 4
Susan Sifton 4
Alfred Sifton 3
Alice Sifton 3
Annie Sifton 3
Frederick Sifton 3
Albert Sifton 2
Anne Sifton 2
Arthur Sifton 2
Caroline Sifton 2
Harriett Sifton 2
Henry Sifton 2
Isabel Sifton 2
Jonathan Sifton 2
Maria Sifton 2
Richard Sifton 2

Sifton Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Sefton 83% 5,994
2 Sifton 100% 145
3 Safton 83% 115

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The surname Sifton is the 2nd most popular variant of Sefton.

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