Sowley 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 4
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 3
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 14
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 4

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

Sowley Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Sowley family

Profession Census Frequency
Farmer 2
Mariner 1
Canal Carpenter 1
Coachman 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Sowley

Name Census Frequency
Ann Sowley 21
John Sowley 21
Elizabeth Sowley 19
Thomas Sowley 14
George Sowley 12
Mary Sowley 12
Arthur Sowley 10
William Sowley 10
Sarah Sowley 9
Eliza Sowley 8
Margaret Sowley 8
Richard Sowley 8
Abraham Sowley 7
Alfred Sowley 6
Hannah Sowley 6
Emma Sowley 5
Harry Sowley 5
James Sowley 5
Robert Sowley 5
Jane Sowley 4
Charles Sowley 3
Edward Sowley 3
Ellen Sowley 3
Henry Sowley 3
Joseph Sowley 3

Sowley Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Solly 67% 3,906
2 Soley 83% 2,276
3 Solley 83% 2,123
4 Sawley 83% 1,138
5 Sowley 100% 278
6 Sooley 83% 251
7 Swaley 67% 234

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The surname Sowley is the 5th most popular variant of Solly.

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