Whitehaven 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 2
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
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 0
Staffordshire 43
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 4

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

Whitehaven Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Whitehaven family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 8
Coal Miner 4
Labourer 4
Dress Maker 2
Labourer Iron Works 1
Labourer Iron Works Wife 1
Lay Agent 1
Apprentice 1
Brick Merchant 1
Carter 1
Labourer In Iron Works 1
Servant 1
Agricultural Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Whitehaven

Name Census Frequency
Mary Whitehaven 9
Edward Whitehaven 7
John Whitehaven 5
Eliza Whitehaven 4
Joseph Whitehaven 4
Sarah Whitehaven 4
William Whitehaven 4
Ann Whitehaven 3
Elizabeth Whitehaven 3
Frederick Whitehaven 3
Thomas Whitehaven 3
Agnes Whitehaven 2
Emma Whitehaven 2
George Whitehaven 2
Hannah Whitehaven 2
Herbert Whitehaven 2
James Whitehaven 2
Nellic Whitehaven 2
Phoebe Whitehaven 2
Abraham Whitehaven 1
Alexander Whitehaven 1
Alice Whitehaven 1
Archibald Whitehaven 1
Arthur Whitehaven 1
Beatrice Whitehaven 1

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