Kea 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 13
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 2
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 5
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 3
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 2
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 6
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Kea Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Kea family

Profession Census Frequency
Labourer 2
Male Servant 2
Boat Man 1
Collier 1
File Plasterer 1
Mason 1
Calico Printer 1
Forgeman 1
Agricultural Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Kea

Name Census Frequency
Mary Kea 8
William Kea 8
Sarah Kea 7
Thomas Kea 7
Henry Kea 5
Ann Kea 4
David Kea 4
James Kea 4
John Kea 4
Samuel Kea 4
Elizabeth Kea 3
George Kea 3
Margaret Kea 3
Alexander Kea 2
Annie Kea 2
Cecil Kea 2
Charles Kea 2
Edward Kea 2
Eliza Kea 2
Emily Kea 2
Fanny Kea 2
Isabella Kea 2
Jane Kea 2
Martha Kea 2
Peter Kea 2

Kea Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Key 67% 32,408
2 Eke 33% 3,723
3 Oak 0% 2,172
4 Oke 33% 2,091
5 Oake 25% 1,890
6 Kee 67% 695
7 Quay 25% 570
8 Ake 33% 377
9 Kie 33% 158
10 Koe 33% 141
11 Kea 100% 124

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The surname Kea is the 11th most popular variant of Key.

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