Swail 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 1
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 13
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 2
London 6
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 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 9

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

Swail Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Swail family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 6
Carpet Works 2
Van Driver 1
Iron Monger 1
Shipwright 1
Shipwright H M Dockyard 1
Landowner 1
Domestic Servant 1
Farm Labourer 1
Mill Wright 1
Warehouseman 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Swail

Name Census Frequency
Jane Swail 19
William Swail 19
John Swail 18
Ann Swail 16
Martha Swail 12
Mary Swail 11
Elizabeth Swail 9
James Swail 9
Percy Swail 5
Richard Swail 5
Sarah Swail 5
Charlotte Swail 4
Fanny Swail 4
George Swail 4
Joseph Swail 4
Edith Swail 3
Thomas Swail 3
Amy Swail 2
Archibald Swail 2
Arthur Swail 2
Eliza Swail 2
Florence Swail 2
Maud Swail 2
Rebecca Swail 2
Robert Swail 2

Swail Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Swale 60% 3,106
2 Sawle 40% 1,588
3 Sewel 40% 633
4 Sowle 20% 302
5 Swail 100% 196

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The surname Swail is the 5th most popular variant of Swale.

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