Tar 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 1
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 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

Tar Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Tar family

Profession Census Frequency
Tailoress 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Tar

Name Census Frequency
William Tar 15
George Tar 13
Mary Tar 13
Elizabeth Tar 11
Sarah Tar 10
Ann Tar 6
John Tar 6
Eliza Tar 5
James Tar 5
Henry Tar 4
Charles Tar 3
Samuel Tar 3
Albert Tar 2
Catherine Tar 2
Edward Tar 2
Emma Tar 2
Frederick Tar 2
Robert Tar 2
Thomas Tar 2
Abraham Tar 1
Alfred Tar 1
Alice Tar 1
Amelia Tar 1
Anne Tar 1
Annie Tar 1

Tar Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Tarr 75% 8,137
2 Tree 25% 5,385
3 Teare 60% 3,905
4 Tear 75% 3,333
5 True 25% 2,126
6 Tier 50% 1,031
7 Tuer 50% 997
8 Teer 50% 531
9 Oater 40% 218
10 Teear 60% 197
11 Eater 40% 194
12 Tero 50% 165
13 Tar 100% 144
14 Toor 50% 139
15 Toore 40% 126
16 Tare 75% 123
17 Tore 50% 118
18 Eator 40% 115
19 Tour 50% 113
20 Ture 50% 101

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The surname Tar is the 13th most popular variant of Tarr.

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