Wider 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 4
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 1
Middlesex 8
Northumberland 1
Norfolk 0
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 1
Yorkshire 21

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

Wider Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Wider family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 8
General Labourer 2
Labourer 1
Grocer 1
Wharfinger 1
Servant Domestic 1
Cord Cutter 1
Cotton Piecener 1
Doffer In Worsted Mill And Selding 1
Domestic Labourer 1
Fruiterer 1
Iron Works Labourer 1
Living On Income 1
Milk Dealer 1
Shawl Tringer 1
Signal Fitter 1
Woollen Piecer 1
Worsted Mill 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Wider

Name Census Frequency
Mary Wider 10
John Wider 7
William Wider 7
Edith Wider 6
Elizabeth Wider 6
George Wider 5
Albert Wider 4
Ann Wider 4
Annie Wider 4
Edward Wider 4
Eliza Wider 4
Ernest Wider 4
Harold Wider 4
James Wider 4
Samuel Wider 4
Charles Wider 3
Susan Wider 3
Alfred Wider 2
Clifford Wider 2
Emma Wider 2
Harriet Wider 2
Henry Wider 2
Joseph Wider 2
Louisa Wider 2
Robert Wider 2

Wider Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Wooder 67% 1,384
2 Woodier 57% 822
3 Weeder 67% 669
4 Wader 80% 172
5 Wider 100% 131

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The surname Wider is the 5th most popular variant of Wooder.

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