Wadds 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 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 1
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 2
Lincolnshire 5
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 1
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 3
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 1
Yorkshire 4

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 2
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Wadds Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Wadds family

Profession Census Frequency
Coachman 1
Cook Domestic Servant 1
Cottager 1
Foreman Plate Layer Railway 1
Mantel Maker 1
Japanner 1
Tin Plate Worker 1
Domestic 1
Domestic Servant 1
Head Gardener 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Wadds

Name Census Frequency
William Wadds 42
John Wadds 28
Mary Wadds 28
George Wadds 25
Elizabeth Wadds 22
Ann Wadds 21
Sarah Wadds 20
Hannah Wadds 14
Robert Wadds 13
Thomas Wadds 13
Fanny Wadds 9
Jane Wadds 8
Arthur Wadds 6
Bailey Wadds 6
Catherine Wadds 6
Emma Wadds 6
Frances Wadds 6
Martha Wadds 6
Philip Wadds 6
Samuel Wadds 6
Alice Wadds 5
Annie Wadds 5
Edward Wadds 5
Emily Wadds 5
Henry Wadds 5

Wadds Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Woods 60% 134,160
2 Wadds 100% 453
3 Widdas 67% 347
4 Wads 80% 273

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The surname Wadds is the 2nd most popular variant of Woods.

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