Bowd 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 16
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 11
Huntingdonshire (and Rutland) 11
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 (and Huntingdonshire) 11
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 1
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
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

Bowd Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Bowd family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 8
Female Servant 4
Joiner Carpenter 1
Farmer 1
Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Bowd

Name Census Frequency
William Bowd 65
Sarah Bowd 55
James Bowd 51
John Bowd 47
Mary Bowd 39
Alfred Bowd 37
Elizabeth Bowd 36
George Bowd 33
Arthur Bowd 30
Ernest Bowd 22
Joseph Bowd 22
Thomas Bowd 22
Walter Bowd 22
Ann Bowd 20
Alice Bowd 18
Emma Bowd 15
Robert Bowd 15
David Bowd 13
Ellen Bowd 12
Emily Bowd 12
Stephen Bowd 12
Charles Bowd 11
Ada Bowd 10
Herbert Bowd 10
Annie Bowd 9

Bowd Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Bode 50% 1,204
2 Bowd 100% 1,093
3 Boad 75% 503

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The surname Bowd is the 2nd most popular variant of Bode.

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