Bellingham Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 2
Buckinghamshire 3
Berkshire 1
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 6
Cheshire 33
Cornwall 11
Cumberland 9
Derbyshire 10
Devon 6
Dorset 0
Durham 20
Essex 54
Gloucestershire 7
Hampshire 26
Herefordshire 2
Hertfordshire 19
Huntingdonshire (and Rutland) 1
Isle of Man 0
Kent 394
Lancashire 78
Leicestershire 9
Lincolnshire 1
London 200
Middlesex 34
Northumberland 11
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 3
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland (and Huntingdonshire) 1
Shropshire 120
Suffolk 2
Somerset 10
Surrey 70
Sussex 104
Staffordshire 218
Warwickshire 31
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 4
Worcestershire 22
Yorkshire 58

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 1
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 12
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 9
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Bellingham Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Bellingham family

Profession Census Frequency
School 179
Farm Labourer 22
Private Means 16
Farmer 12
General Servant (domestic) 10
General Labourer 10
General Servant Domestic 10
None 9
Shop Assistant 8
Domestic Servant 7
At Home 6
Clerk 6
Labourer On Farm 6
Cook (domestic) 5
Housemaid (domestic) 5
Housemaid Domestic 5
Labourer 5
Carman 4
Gardener 4
Shop Keeper 4
House Painter 4
Laundress 4
Son Working On Land 4
Butcher 4
Bolt Screwer 4

Most Frequent Forenames for Bellingham

Name Census Frequency
William Bellingham 511
Mary Bellingham 504
John Bellingham 368
Sarah Bellingham 325
Elizabeth Bellingham 322
George Bellingham 290
Thomas Bellingham 285
James Bellingham 277
Ann Bellingham 163
Henry Bellingham 162
Charles Bellingham 151
Richard Bellingham 133
Joseph Bellingham 127
Eliza Bellingham 124
Jane Bellingham 121
Ellen Bellingham 116
Frederick Bellingham 109
Edward Bellingham 107
Alfred Bellingham 103
Albert Bellingham 102
Alice Bellingham 99
Arthur Bellingham 96
Annie Bellingham 95
Samuel Bellingham 95
Robert Bellingham 93

Bellingham Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Billingham 90% 13,332
2 Bellingham 100% 8,228
3 Bullingham 90% 1,415
4 Ballingham 90% 226
5 Bollingham 90% 105

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The surname Bellingham is the 2nd most popular variant of Billingham.

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