Woster 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 6
Berkshire 3
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 1
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 3
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 3
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 5
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

Woster Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Woster family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 2
Labourer 1
Blacksmith 1
Shoe Maker 1
Ag Lab 1
Taylor 1
Ag Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Woster

Name Census Frequency
John Woster 17
Mary Woster 15
William Woster 15
Elizabeth Woster 10
Ellen Woster 8
Frederick Woster 6
Arthur Woster 5
George Woster 5
Henry Woster 5
James Woster 5
Sarah Woster 4
Abraham Woster 3
Ann Woster 3
Charles Woster 3
Fanny Woster 3
Hannah Woster 3
Joseph Woster 3
Thomas Woster 3
Agnes Woster 2
Alexander Woster 2
Alfred Woster 2
Andrew Woster 2
Annie Woster 2
Caroline Woster 2
Charlotte Woster 2

Woster Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Wooster 86% 3,484
2 Wester 83% 1,202
3 Waister 71% 271
4 Woster 100% 199
5 Waster 83% 182
6 Wister 83% 119

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The surname Woster is the 4th most popular variant of Wooster.

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