Wignal 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 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 11
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 3
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 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

Wignal Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Wignal family

Profession Census Frequency
General Labourer 2
Carter 1
Coal Miner Hewer 1
Cotton Cop Winder 1
Domestic 1
On Painning Machine 1
Retired Farmer 1
School 1
Waggoner On Farm 1
Winder Cotton 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Wignal

Name Census Frequency
Mary Wignal 53
William Wignal 41
John Wignal 40
James Wignal 29
Elizabeth Wignal 23
Richard Wignal 22
Ann Wignal 21
Thomas Wignal 21
Sarah Wignal 18
Joseph Wignal 17
George Wignal 15
Margaret Wignal 15
Alice Wignal 12
Jane Wignal 12
Ellen Wignal 11
Hannah Wignal 8
Henry Wignal 8
Robert Wignal 8
Betty Wignal 7
Charles Wignal 7
Eliza Wignal 6
Benjamin Wignal 5
Martha Wignal 5
Samuel Wignal 5
Anna Wignal 4

Wignal Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Wignall 86% 11,967
2 Wignal 100% 521

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The surname Wignal is the 2nd most popular variant of Wignall.

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