Wilster 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 7
London 1
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 2

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

Wilster Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Wilster family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 2
Joiner 1
Naturalist Carpenter 1
Shop Man 1
House Servant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Wilster

Name Census Frequency
William Wilster 14
James Wilster 13
Mary Wilster 12
Elizabeth Wilster 10
George Wilster 8
Henry Wilster 8
John Wilster 7
Joseph Wilster 7
Samuel Wilster 7
Sarah Wilster 6
Alice Wilster 5
Ellen Wilster 5
Eliza Wilster 4
Frank Wilster 4
Frederick Wilster 4
Hannah Wilster 4
Alfred Wilster 3
Ann Wilster 3
Annie Wilster 3
Clara Wilster 3
Harriet Wilster 3
Robert Wilster 3
Thomas Wilster 3
Albert Wilster 2
Arthur Wilster 2

Wilster Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Welster 86% 2,780
2 Walster 86% 2,422
3 Welester 75% 344
4 Wilster 100% 211

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The surname Wilster is the 4th most popular variant of Welster.

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