Wough 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 7
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 1
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 2
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 3
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 1
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
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 7

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

Wough Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Wough family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 7
Dress Maker 1
Farm Servant 1
Joiner 1
None 1
Domestic Servant 1
Coal Miner 1
Accountant 1
Commercial Clerk Biscuit Manufacturer 1
Commercial Clerks Wife 1
Retired Grocer 1
Wife Of Above 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Wough

Name Census Frequency
Mary Wough 13
Jane Wough 12
John Wough 12
Thomas Wough 9
William Wough 9
James Wough 8
Sarah Wough 8
Elizabeth Wough 7
Ann Wough 5
Annie Wough 5
George Wough 5
Hannah Wough 5
Alice Wough 4
Henry Wough 4
Isabella Wough 4
Joseph Wough 4
Robert Wough 4
Margaret Wough 3
Emma Wough 2
Isaac Wough 2
Jacob Wough 2
Kate Wough 2
Louisa Wough 2
Maria Wough 2
Matthew Wough 2

Wough Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Waugh 80% 18,598
2 Weigh 60% 1,068
3 Waigh 60% 272
4 Wough 100% 175

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The surname Wough is the 4th most popular variant of Waugh.

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