Wayre 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 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 6
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 2
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 1
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 1
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 3

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

Wayre Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Wayre family

Profession Census Frequency
Dyer 2
Joiner 1
Lab 1
Cart Driver 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Wayre

Name Census Frequency
Mary Wayre 17
George Wayre 14
William Wayre 14
John Wayre 12
Thomas Wayre 12
Charles Wayre 10
Elizabeth Wayre 8
Sarah Wayre 8
Alice Wayre 7
Frederick Wayre 6
Ellen Wayre 5
James Wayre 5
Jane Wayre 5
Rebecca Wayre 5
Joseph Wayre 4
Rose Wayre 4
Alfred Wayre 3
Annie Wayre 3
Arthur Wayre 3
Edward Wayre 3
Ethel Wayre 3
Florence Wayre 3
Hannah Wayre 3
Henry Wayre 3
Margaret Wayre 3

Wayre Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Ware 80% 38,178
2 Wear 40% 7,626
3 Wyer 40% 4,967
4 Weare 60% 4,826
5 Wyre 80% 580
6 Warre 80% 429
7 Wair 60% 323
8 Weyer 40% 278
9 Wayre 100% 232
10 Whare 60% 203
11 Wayer 60% 134

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The surname Wayre is the 9th most popular variant of Ware.

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