Bowby 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 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 13
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 4
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 1
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

Bowby Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Bowby family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 3
Coal Dealer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Bowby

Name Census Frequency
John Bowby 13
William Bowby 7
Charles Bowby 6
Sarah Bowby 5
Ann Bowby 4
Margaret Bowby 4
Arthur Bowby 3
Catherine Bowby 3
Edward Bowby 3
Elizabeth Bowby 3
Ethel Bowby 3
George Bowby 3
James Bowby 3
Richard Bowby 3
Thomas Bowby 3
Alice Bowby 2
Eliza Bowby 2
Emma Bowby 2
Ernest Bowby 2
Martha Bowby 2
Mary Bowby 2
Robert Bowby 2
Ada Bowby 1
Adam Bowby 1
Amelia Bowby 1

Bowby Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Bobby 80% 1,495
2 Boby 80% 933
3 Booby 80% 237
4 Bobey 60% 111
5 Bowby 100% 110

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The surname Bowby is the 5th most popular variant of Bobby.

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