Gidwell 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 1
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 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 2
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 1
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 1

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 3
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Gidwell Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Gidwell family

Profession Census Frequency
Dress Maker's Apprentice 1
Coal Miner 1
Attendant 1
Dressmaker 1
Machinest 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Gidwell

Name Census Frequency
Elizabeth Gidwell 19
William Gidwell 16
James Gidwell 13
John Gidwell 7
Alice Gidwell 6
Emma Gidwell 6
Harry Gidwell 5
Thomas Gidwell 5
Eliza Gidwell 4
Henry Gidwell 4
Mary Gidwell 4
Sarah Gidwell 4
Nellie Gidwell 3
Phoebe Gidwell 3
Susan Gidwell 3
Ann Gidwell 2
Charles Gidwell 2
Ellen Gidwell 2
George Gidwell 2
Lilian Gidwell 2
Lillian Gidwell 2
Agnes Gidwell 1
Amy Gidwell 1
Arthur Gidwell 1
Blanche Gidwell 1

Gidwell Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Goodwill 63% 4,361
2 Goodwell 75% 616
3 Gidwell 100% 131
4 Goodwillie 50% 106

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The surname Gidwell is the 3rd most popular variant of Goodwill.

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