Towensend 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 1
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 2
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 1
Oxfordshire 2
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

Towensend Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Towensend family

Profession Census Frequency
Labourer 2
Grocer Porter 1
General Servant (domestic) 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Towensend

Name Census Frequency
Elizabeth Towensend 15
Mary Towensend 14
William Towensend 14
Thomas Towensend 9
Ann Towensend 8
Charles Towensend 7
George Towensend 7
James Towensend 7
Sarah Towensend 7
Alice Towensend 6
Jane Towensend 6
John Towensend 6
Walter Towensend 6
Ellen Towensend 5
Henry Towensend 5
Emily Towensend 4
Arthur Towensend 3
Harriet Towensend 3
Louisa Towensend 3
Albert Towensend 2
Annie Towensend 2
Caroline Towensend 2
Emmanuel Towensend 2
Fanny Towensend 2
Frederick Towensend 2

Towensend Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Townsend 89% 87,976
2 Townsand 78% 1,627
3 Towensend 100% 197

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The surname Towensend is the 3rd most popular variant of Townsend.

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