Sweby 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 4
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 1
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 1
London 2
Middlesex 3
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 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

Sweby Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Sweby family

Profession Census Frequency
Bootmaker 1
Confectioner 1
Scholar 1
General Servant 1
Servant 1
Carpenter & Joiner 1
Parlour Maid Domestic Servant 1
Printers Warehouseman 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Sweby

Name Census Frequency
John Sweby 25
Sarah Sweby 14
Elizabeth Sweby 12
Mary Sweby 11
Charles Sweby 9
Thomas Sweby 9
Alice Sweby 8
George Sweby 8
William Sweby 8
Ann Sweby 5
Amy Sweby 4
Annie Sweby 4
Emma Sweby 4
Florence Sweby 4
Frederick Sweby 4
Alfred Sweby 3
Anthony Sweby 3
Arthur Sweby 3
Charlotte Sweby 3
Hannah Sweby 3
Violet Sweby 3
Walter Sweby 3
Albert Sweby 2
David Sweby 2
Edward Sweby 2

Sweby Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Swaby 80% 4,237
2 Swabey 67% 1,214
3 Sowby 60% 201
4 Sweby 100% 190
5 Sawby 60% 182
6 Sweeby 83% 160

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The surname Sweby is the 4th most popular variant of Swaby.

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