Wield 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 2
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 5
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 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

Wield Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Wield family

Profession Census Frequency
Male Servant 1
Pauper 1
Coal Dealer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Wield

Name Census Frequency
William Wield 35
Thomas Wield 25
Elizabeth Wield 23
Mary Wield 21
John Wield 19
James Wield 18
David Wield 16
Charles Wield 14
George Wield 14
Ellen Wield 12
Frederick Wield 10
Alice Wield 9
Ann Wield 9
Frank Wield 9
Harry Wield 9
Annie Wield 8
Henry Wield 8
Jane Wield 8
Sarah Wield 8
Alfred Wield 7
Caroline Wield 7
Eliza Wield 7
Emily Wield 7
Martha Wield 7
Emma Wield 6

Wield Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Wild 80% 86,883
2 Wilde 60% 31,412
3 Would 60% 1,425
4 Waldie 33% 1,219
5 Weld 80% 912
6 Wield 100% 499
7 Wald 60% 435
8 Wold 60% 332
9 Weald 60% 292
10 Weild 60% 251
11 Walde 40% 163
12 Welde 60% 139
13 Ewald 40% 109

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The surname Wield is the 6th most popular variant of Wild.

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