Swayer 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 2
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 1
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 1
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 1
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 3
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 2
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

Swayer Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Swayer family

Profession Census Frequency
Independent 2
Female Servant 2
Green Grocer 1
Agricultural Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Swayer

Name Census Frequency
John Swayer 14
Mary Swayer 13
William Swayer 11
Elizabeth Swayer 10
George Swayer 8
Thomas Swayer 7
Emma Swayer 6
James Swayer 6
Richard Swayer 6
Ann Swayer 5
Henry Swayer 4
Albert Swayer 3
Charlotte Swayer 3
Emily Swayer 3
Ernest Swayer 3
Jane Swayer 3
Joseph Swayer 3
Alfred Swayer 2
Anne Swayer 2
Annie Swayer 2
Arthur Swayer 2
Charles Swayer 2
Ellen Swayer 2
Gertrude Swayer 2
Harriett Swayer 2

Swayer Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Sawyer 67% 41,332
2 Swyer 83% 1,575
3 Swayer 100% 184
4 Sawayer 86% 143

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The surname Swayer is the 3rd most popular variant of Sawyer.

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