Swansea 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 4
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 2
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 3
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

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

Swansea Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Swansea family

Profession Census Frequency
Tailor 1
School Master 1
Labourer 1
Male Servant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Swansea

Name Census Frequency
John Swansea 12
Thomas Swansea 8
Mary Swansea 7
Sarah Swansea 7
William Swansea 7
Edward Swansea 4
George Swansea 4
Hannah Swansea 4
Henry Swansea 4
Margaret Swansea 4
Alexander Swansea 3
Annie Swansea 3
Elizabeth Swansea 3
Averil Swansea 2
Catherine Swansea 2
Charles Swansea 2
David Swansea 2
Eliza Swansea 2
Ellen Swansea 2
Emily Swansea 2
Harriet Swansea 2
Joseph Swansea 2
Maria Swansea 2
Agnes Swansea 1
Albert Swansea 1

Swansea Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Swains 57% 984
2 Swans 71% 442
3 Swins 57% 338
4 Swines 57% 136
5 Swansea 100% 130

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The surname Swansea is the 5th most popular variant of Swains.

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