Southen 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 1
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 2
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 13
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 1
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 1
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 1
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

Southen Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Southen family

Profession Census Frequency
Female Servant 4
Male Servant 1
Agricultural Labourer 1
Cooper 1
Farmer 1
Independent 1
Pauper 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Southen

Name Census Frequency
Elizabeth Southen 23
William Southen 23
Mary Southen 21
Thomas Southen 18
Charles Southen 17
George Southen 16
Sarah Southen 14
John Southen 13
Ann Southen 12
Richard Southen 10
Edward Southen 8
Henry Southen 8
Ellen Southen 7
James Southen 7
Charlotte Southen 6
Stephen Southen 6
Edith Southen 5
Harriett Southen 5
Samuel Southen 5
Alfred Southen 4
Hannah Southen 4
Harriet Southen 4
Harry Southen 4
Jane Southen 4
Percy Southen 4

Southen Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Southon 86% 2,643
2 Southan 86% 931
3 Southin 86% 424
4 Southen 100% 374

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The surname Southen is the 4th most popular variant of Southon.

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