Sponge 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 5
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 7
Lincolnshire 0
London 3
Middlesex 1
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 23
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 1

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

Sponge Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Sponge family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 7
Female Servant 3
Ornamentor Of Lave 3
Lace Runner 2
Male Servant 1
Labourer 1
Widow 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Sponge

Name Census Frequency
Mary Sponge 35
John Sponge 31
William Sponge 30
Thomas Sponge 29
Ann Sponge 20
George Sponge 16
Sarah Sponge 16
Eliza Sponge 13
Elizabeth Sponge 12
Herbert Sponge 9
Henry Sponge 8
Fanny Sponge 7
Hannah Sponge 7
Rebecca Sponge 7
Charles Sponge 6
Tom Sponge 6
Walter Sponge 6
Annie Sponge 5
Harry Sponge 5
Amy Sponge 4
Arthur Sponge 4
Emily Sponge 4
Emma Sponge 4
Richard Sponge 4
Robert Sponge 4

Sponge Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Spong 83% 3,911
2 Sponge 100% 374
3 Sping 67% 181
4 Spinage 71% 124

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The surname Sponge is the 2nd most popular variant of Spong.

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