Yorker 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 2
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 1
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 1
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 22

Wales

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

Yorker Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Yorker family

Profession Census Frequency
School 6
Farm Servant 1
Patent Capten Amy 1
Blast Furnace Labourer 1
Goods Guard Medland Rly 1
Maltster Labourer 1
Ptalelaye Iron Works 1
General Servant Domestic 1
Principal Of Secondary School 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Yorker

Name Census Frequency
Elizabeth Yorker 10
Mary Yorker 10
Ann Yorker 9
William Yorker 9
George Yorker 7
Henry Yorker 7
James Yorker 7
Thomas Yorker 7
Alice Yorker 5
John Yorker 5
Alfred Yorker 4
Margaret Yorker 4
Robert Yorker 4
Agnes Yorker 3
Charles Yorker 3
Edward Yorker 3
Emma Yorker 3
Fred Yorker 3
Sarah Yorker 3
Amelia Yorker 2
Emily Yorker 2
Hannah Yorker 2
Harriett Yorker 2
Joseph Yorker 2
Maria Yorker 2

Yorker Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Yarker 83% 1,386
2 Yorker 100% 164

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The surname Yorker is the 2nd most popular variant of Yarker.

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