Bowle 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 1
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 1
Dorset 1
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 10
Hampshire 1
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 6
Lancashire 2
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 1
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 4
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 2
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 9
Somerset 11
Surrey 0
Sussex 4
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 1
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 2

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

Bowle Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Bowle family

Profession Census Frequency
Farmer 7
Independent 6
Male Servant 3
Agricultural Labourer 2
Blacksmith 2
Labourer 1
Druggist 1
Grocer 1
Grocer Journeyman 1
Frame Work Knitter 1
Corter Railway 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Bowle

Name Census Frequency
William Bowle 40
Mary Bowle 33
George Bowle 30
Sarah Bowle 29
Henry Bowle 28
John Bowle 27
Thomas Bowle 27
Charles Bowle 26
Elizabeth Bowle 26
Edward Bowle 17
James Bowle 17
Ann Bowle 15
Robert Bowle 13
Eliza Bowle 11
Arthur Bowle 10
Emma Bowle 10
Alfred Bowle 9
Alice Bowle 8
Edmund Bowle 8
Ellen Bowle 8
Frederick Bowle 8
Jane Bowle 8
Maria Bowle 8
Richard Bowle 8
Annie Bowle 7

Bowle Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Bole 80% 1,701
2 Bowle 100% 747
3 Boal 60% 696
4 Bowl 80% 628
5 Bowel 60% 412
6 Bolle 80% 121

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The surname Bowle is the 2nd most popular variant of Bole.

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