Sowby 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 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 7
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 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 1

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

Sowby Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Sowby family

Profession Census Frequency
Farmer 2
Apprentice 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Sowby

Name Census Frequency
William Sowby 18
John Sowby 13
Ann Sowby 11
Thomas Sowby 11
Elizabeth Sowby 10
Mary Sowby 10
Charles Sowby 9
Sarah Sowby 8
Edward Sowby 7
Frederick Sowby 6
Martha Sowby 6
Walter Sowby 6
Ernest Sowby 5
Hannah Sowby 4
Sophia Sowby 4
Alice Sowby 3
Annie Sowby 3
Esther Sowby 3
George Sowby 3
Joseph Sowby 3
Alfred Sowby 2
Charlotte Sowby 2
Constance Sowby 2
Harriett Sowby 2
Helen Sowby 2

Sowby Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Swaby 60% 4,237
2 Sobey 60% 2,575
3 Swabey 50% 1,214
4 Soby 80% 477
5 Sowby 100% 201
6 Sweby 60% 190
7 Sawby 80% 182
8 Sooby 80% 177
9 Sweeby 50% 160

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The surname Sowby is the 5th most popular variant of Swaby.

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