Wakfield 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 3
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 4
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 1
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 7
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 1
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
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 3

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

Wakfield Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Wakfield family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 2
Carpenter 1
Cotton Weaver 1
Female Servant 1
Independent 1
Joiner Journeyman 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Wakfield

Name Census Frequency
Mary Wakfield 21
John Wakfield 14
Ann Wakfield 11
William Wakfield 11
Thomas Wakfield 10
Charles Wakfield 8
Elizabeth Wakfield 8
Sarah Wakfield 8
Emma Wakfield 7
Joseph Wakfield 6
Alice Wakfield 5
Hannah Wakfield 5
Arthur Wakfield 4
Frank Wakfield 4
George Wakfield 4
Henry Wakfield 4
James Wakfield 4
Annie Wakfield 3
Caroline Wakfield 3
Fanny Wakfield 3
Martha Wakfield 3
Samuel Wakfield 3
Lucy Wakfield 2
Luies Wakfield 2
Mathew Wakfield 2

Wakfield Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Wakefield 89% 40,254
2 Wakfield 100% 250

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The surname Wakfield is the 2nd most popular variant of Wakefield.

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