Sowood 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 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
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 11

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

Sowood Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Sowood family

Profession Census Frequency
Engineer 1
Moulder 1
Stone Cutter 1
Stone Mason 1
Weaver 1
Wool Comber 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Sowood

Name Census Frequency
Mary Sowood 17
Sarah Sowood 17
Annie Sowood 12
Elizabeth Sowood 11
John Sowood 7
Joseph Sowood 6
Robert Sowood 6
Alice Sowood 5
Ann Sowood 5
Margaret Sowood 5
Sutcliffe Sowood 5
Albert Sowood 4
Eliza Sowood 4
Frederick Sowood 4
Hannah Sowood 4
Jane Sowood 4
Martha Sowood 4
Edith Sowood 3
Elsie Sowood 3
Emily Sowood 3
Fred Sowood 3
Friend Sowood 3
Gertrude Sowood 3
Harold Sowood 3
Horatio Sowood 3

Sowood Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Sweed 50% 350
2 Sawood 83% 249
3 Sowood 100% 237
4 Seawood 71% 145

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The surname Sowood is the 3rd most popular variant of Sweed.

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