Wife 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 1
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 13
Dorset 1
Durham 0
Essex 16
Gloucestershire 1
Hampshire 1
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 2
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 4
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 2
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 4
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 1
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 1
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Wife Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Wife family

Profession Census Frequency
Female Servant 3
Bricklayer 2
Independent 1
Agricultural Labourer 1
Prisoner Butcher 1
Cotton Winder 1
Silk Weaver 1
Mason 1
Worsted Weaver 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Wife

Name Census Frequency
Mary Wife 60
Elizabeth Wife 52
Sarah Wife 44
Jane Wife 25
William Wife 24
Ann Wife 22
John Wife 22
James Wife 20
Annie Wife 18
Harriet Wife 14
Alice Wife 13
Joseph Wife 13
Emma Wife 11
Maria Wife 11
Eliza Wife 10
Louisa Wife 10
Margaret Wife 10
Alfred Wife 9
Emily Wife 9
Thomas Wife 9
Charles Wife 8
Charlotte Wife 8
Edward Wife 8
Frederick Wife 8
George Wife 8

Wife Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Woof 25% 3,122
2 Wife 100% 779

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The surname Wife is the 2nd most popular variant of Woof.

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