Wad 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 1
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 1
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 1
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 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 3
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

Wad Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Wad family

Profession Census Frequency
Male Servant 1
Grocer 1
Brick Layer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Wad

Name Census Frequency
Mary Wad 11
Ann Wad 7
George Wad 7
Thomas Wad 7
William Wad 7
Sarah Wad 6
Charles Wad 5
John Wad 4
Ada Wad 3
Elizabeth Wad 3
Ellen Wad 3
Frances Wad 3
Hannah Wad 3
Margaret Wad 3
Robert Wad 3
Catherine Wad 2
Emily Wad 2
Jane Wad 2
Joseph Wad 2
Abraham Wad 1
Alfred Wad 1
Anna Wad 1
Annie Wad 1
Arthur Wad 1
Augusta Wad 1

Wad Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Wood 50% 662,957
2 Wade 75% 87,141
3 Weed 50% 2,171
4 Wide 50% 1,219
5 Waud 75% 942
6 Waid 75% 926
7 Waide 60% 905
8 Wadd 75% 842
9 Woode 40% 410
10 Awde 25% 269
11 Woodd 40% 236
12 Wodd 50% 219
13 Wead 75% 142
14 Wode 50% 133
15 Wad 100% 132
16 Wood House 20% 129
17 Wied 50% 126
18 Waude 60% 111

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The surname Wad is the 15th most popular variant of Wood.

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