Silway 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 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 1
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 7
Surrey 1
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

Silway Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Silway family

Profession Census Frequency
Domestic Servant 2
General Servant 1
Annuitant 1
Scholar 1
Straw Bonnet Maker 1
Tailoress 1
Sister In Law 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Silway

Name Census Frequency
William Silway 11
Mary Silway 10
James Silway 9
Elizabeth Silway 8
Henry Silway 7
Ann Silway 6
Joseph Silway 6
John Silway 5
Eliza Silway 4
George Silway 4
Louisa Silway 4
Sarah Silway 4
Annie Silway 3
Emma Silway 3
Martha Silway 3
Thomas Silway 3
Alice Silway 2
Ellen Silway 2
Emily Silway 2
Georgina Silway 2
Hannah Silway 2
Richard Silway 2
Samuel Silway 2
Albert Silway 1
Alfred Silway 1

Silway Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Selway 83% 5,867
2 Salway 83% 4,067
3 Solway 83% 1,032
4 Slowey 50% 310
5 Soloway 71% 271
6 Silway 100% 135
7 Sulway 83% 109

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The surname Silway is the 6th most popular variant of Selway.

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