Stuart Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 31
Buckinghamshire 19
Berkshire 21
Cambridgeshire 5
Channel Islands 5
Cheshire 150
Cornwall 4
Cumberland 159
Derbyshire 80
Devon 152
Dorset 10
Durham 267
Essex 213
Gloucestershire 46
Hampshire 112
Herefordshire 1
Hertfordshire 40
Huntingdonshire (and Rutland) 2
Isle of Man 18
Kent 134
Lancashire 944
Leicestershire 23
Lincolnshire 43
London 949
Middlesex 172
Northumberland 353
Norfolk 32
Northamptonshire 36
Nottinghamshire 120
Oxfordshire 14
Rutland (and Huntingdonshire) 2
Shropshire 9
Suffolk 16
Somerset 39
Surrey 237
Sussex 97
Staffordshire 128
Warwickshire 90
Westmorland 8
Wiltshire 23
Worcestershire 52
Yorkshire 530

Wales

Anglesey 12
Brecknockshire 1
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 1
Carmarthenshire 23
Denbighshire 9
Flintshire 11
Glamorgan 101
Merionethshire 8
Montgomeryshire 3
Monmouthshire 16
Pembrokeshire 1
Radnorshire 0

Stuart Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Stuart family

Profession Census Frequency
School 522
Private Means 107
None 35
Clerk 33
Student 30
Labourer 27
Dressmaker 26
General Labourer 22
At School 20
Coal Miner Hewer 20
Assisting In Business 20
No Occupation 19
Farmer 19
Housekeeper 19
General Servant (domestic) 17
Cotton Weaver 17
House Keeper 16
At Home 16
House Painter 15
General Servant Domestic 14
Laundress 13
Weaver 13
Police Constable 12
Domestic Servant 12
Farm Labourer 11

Most Frequent Forenames for Stuart

Name Census Frequency
Mary Stuart 1,690
William Stuart 1,484
John Stuart 1,268
James Stuart 976
Charles Stuart 971
Elizabeth Stuart 895
George Stuart 650
Thomas Stuart 604
Sarah Stuart 557
Jane Stuart 532
Robert Stuart 527
Margaret Stuart 491
Annie Stuart 409
Ann Stuart 404
Henry Stuart 392
Ellen Stuart 370
Alice Stuart 331
Joseph Stuart 317
Emily Stuart 231
Arthur Stuart 229
Alexander Stuart 224
Eliza Stuart 223
Catherine Stuart 212
Emma Stuart 202
Frederick Stuart 192

Stuart Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Stewart 71% 81,653
2 Street 50% 51,472
3 Stuart 100% 24,455
4 Start 83% 7,266
5 Sturt 83% 4,412
6 Streat 50% 1,534
7 Strout 50% 651
8 Strut 50% 443
9 Stort 67% 259
10 Steart 83% 229
11 Strait 67% 219
12 Strat 67% 175
13 Starte 67% 145
14 Steuart 86% 142
15 Streete 43% 116
16 Stert 67% 114

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The surname Stuart is the 3rd most popular variant of Stewart.

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