Cowdray 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 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 4
Staffordshire 0
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

Cowdray Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Cowdray family

Profession Census Frequency
Female Servant 1
Brick Layer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Cowdray

Name Census Frequency
Charles Cowdray 8
John Cowdray 7
Annie Cowdray 6
Eliza Cowdray 6
Mary Cowdray 6
Agnes Cowdray 5
Albert Cowdray 5
Elizabeth Cowdray 5
James Cowdray 5
Sarah Cowdray 5
William Cowdray 5
Ann Cowdray 4
George Cowdray 4
Alice Cowdray 3
Arthur Cowdray 3
Frank Cowdray 3
Harry Cowdray 3
Henry Cowdray 3
Walter Cowdray 3
Ada Cowdray 2
Bertha Cowdray 2
Bessie Cowdray 2
Ellen Cowdray 2
Harriet Cowdray 2
Henrietta Cowdray 2

Cowdray Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Cowdery 71% 2,725
2 Cowdrey 86% 2,056
3 Cowdry 86% 1,830
4 Cowderoy 75% 861
5 Cawdrey 71% 606
6 Cawdry 71% 551
7 Cawdery 57% 290
8 Cowdray 100% 147

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The surname Cowdray is the 8th most popular variant of Cowdery.

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