Spight 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 2
Derbyshire 0
Devon 1
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 10
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 14
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 2
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

Spight Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Spight family

Profession Census Frequency
Female Servant 2
Private 11th Regiment 1
Farmer 1
Publican 1
Tailor 1
House Keeper 1
Mill Wright 1
Sailor 1
Dressmaker 1
Miller Apprentice 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Spight

Name Census Frequency
William Spight 43
John Spight 29
Sarah Spight 24
Mary Spight 22
Elizabeth Spight 20
James Spight 19
Charles Spight 18
Isaac Spight 17
Ann Spight 16
George Spight 14
Joseph Spight 13
Annie Spight 12
Robert Spight 11
Ernest Spight 10
Fanny Spight 10
Henry Spight 10
Maria Spight 10
Alice Spight 9
Emma Spight 9
Thomas Spight 9
Violet Spight 8
Catherine Spight 7
Emily Spight 7
Hannah Spight 7
Edith Spight 6

Spight Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Speight 86% 15,469
2 Spight 100% 556
3 Spite 50% 509
4 Speaight 75% 503

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The surname Spight is the 2nd most popular variant of Speight.

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