Houlds 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 2
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 4
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 1
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
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

Houlds Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Houlds family

Profession Census Frequency
Cotton Weaver 2
Coal Agent 1
House Keeper 1
Police Constable 1
Domestic Companion 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Houlds

Name Census Frequency
John Houlds 11
William Houlds 9
Mary Houlds 8
James Houlds 6
Sarah Houlds 6
George Houlds 5
Joseph Houlds 5
Robert Houlds 5
Alice Houlds 4
Charles Houlds 3
Elizabeth Houlds 3
Thomas Houlds 3
Ann Houlds 2
Annie Houlds 2
Arthur Houlds 2
Bertha Houlds 2
David Houlds 2
Edward Houlds 2
Eliza Houlds 2
Ellen Houlds 2
Hannah Houlds 2
Richard Houlds 2
Samuel Houlds 2
Agnes Houlds 1
Alfred Houlds 1

Houlds Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Holds 83% 325
2 Hields 67% 261
3 Houlds 100% 121
4 Holdes 67% 101

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The surname Houlds is the 3rd most popular variant of Holds.

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