Wames 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 1
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 6
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 3
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 2
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

Wames Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Wames family

Profession Census Frequency
Tailor 3
Cotton Weaver 1
Apprentice 1
Independent 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Wames

Name Census Frequency
Mary Wames 11
William Wames 8
Elizabeth Wames 6
George Wames 6
Ann Wames 5
Emma Wames 4
John Wames 4
Thomas Wames 4
James Wames 3
Martha Wames 3
Sarah Wames 3
Alice Wames 2
Anne Wames 2
Annie Wames 2
Charles Wames 2
Frederick Wames 2
Maria Wames 2
Robert Wames 2
Matthew Wames 1
Mildred Wames 1
Rebecca Wames 1
Samuel Wames 1
Seaman Wames 1
Sophia Wames 1
Susannah Wames 1

Wames Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Wms 60% 234
2 Weymes 67% 116
3 Wames 100% 104
4 Weems 40% 101

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The surname Wames is the 3rd most popular variant of Wms.

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