Whisson 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 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 5
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 17
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 1
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

Whisson Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Whisson family

Profession Census Frequency
Shoemaker 3
Female Servant 2
Victualler 1
Wine Merchant 1
Blacksmith 1
Independent 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Whisson

Name Census Frequency
Mary Whisson 23
William Whisson 20
Elizabeth Whisson 18
John Whisson 16
Henry Whisson 12
Robert Whisson 12
Emily Whisson 11
Eliza Whisson 10
Alice Whisson 9
Thomas Whisson 9
George Whisson 8
Ann Whisson 7
James Whisson 7
Sarah Whisson 7
Charles Whisson 6
Harriett Whisson 6
Lucy Whisson 6
Agnes Whisson 5
Alfred Whisson 5
Harriet Whisson 5
Martha Whisson 5
Rebecca Whisson 5
Arthur Whisson 4
Clara Whisson 4
Edward Whisson 4

Whisson Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Wesson 71% 5,989
2 Whisson 100% 330
3 Weson 57% 124

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The surname Whisson is the 2nd most popular variant of Wesson.

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