Tey 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 2
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 3
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 1
Hampshire 5
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 1
London 1
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 1
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 2
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

Tey Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Tey family

Profession Census Frequency
Male Servant 2
Independent 2
Labourer 2
Farmer 1
Agricultural Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Tey

Name Census Frequency
Mary Tey 15
William Tey 15
Elizabeth Tey 13
George Tey 10
John Tey 10
Jane Tey 8
Charles Tey 7
Frederick Tey 6
Sarah Tey 6
Thomas Tey 6
Eliza Tey 5
Emily Tey 5
Ellen Tey 4
James Tey 4
Kate Tey 4
Margaret Tey 4
Richard Tey 4
Ann Tey 3
Arthur Tey 3
Dorothy Tey 3
Henry Tey 3
Louisa Tey 3
Rosa Tey 2
Ruth Tey 2
Samuel Tey 2

Tey Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Tye 33% 12,578
2 Toy 67% 8,095
3 Auty 25% 6,884
4 Toye 50% 2,438
5 Tay 67% 1,784
6 Atyeo 40% 533
7 Oatey 60% 451
8 Tey 100% 223
9 Autey 60% 195
10 Taye 50% 143
11 Toyee 40% 115

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The surname Tey is the 8th most popular variant of Tye.

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