Layen 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 2
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 12
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
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

Layen Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Layen family

Profession Census Frequency
Railway Porter 4
Agricultural Labourer 1
General Labourer 1
Labourer 1
Scholar 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Layen

Name Census Frequency
John Layen 7
William Layen 6
Alice Layen 5
Thomas Layen 5
James Layen 4
Albert Layen 3
Arthur Layen 3
Ellen Layen 3
George Layen 3
Maud Layen 3
Charles Layen 2
Edith Layen 2
Elizabeth Layen 2
Ethel Layen 2
Frederick Layen 2
Henry Layen 2
Sarah Layen 2
Edward Layen 1
Eliza Layen 1
Elsie Layen 1
Emily Layen 1
Ernest Layen 1
Ethel.l Layen 1
Florance Layen 1
Florence Layen 1

Layen Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Lyon 60% 31,931
2 Lyne 40% 10,366
3 Layne 60% 1,210
4 Lyan 60% 467
5 Loyn 60% 218
6 Lyone 40% 200
7 Loyne 40% 187
8 Loyan 60% 158
9 Layn 80% 146
10 Lyn 60% 109
11 Layen 100% 102

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The surname Layen is the 11th most popular variant of Lyon.

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