Webbe Surname

274,674th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,414 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Saint Kitts and Nevis

Webbe Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from an occupation. 'the webbe,' i.e. a weaver. Middle English Webbe.

'My wife was a webbe, And woolen cloth made.' - Piers Plowman.

'An haberdasher, and a carpenter, A webbe, a deyer, and a tapiser.

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Webbe Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States4721:767,92159,720
England3041:183,28316,451
Saint Kitts and Nevis2251:24553
Australia871:310,29526,919
Netherlands691:244,74231,623
United States Virgin Islands591:1,871308
Wales441:70,3306,116
Canada351:1,052,73178,176
Dominican Republic231:453,60614,824
France151:4,428,181244,602
Bermuda121:5,440820
Jersey101:9,9202,003
Brazil91:23,786,037375,389
British Virgin Islands71:4,513453
Uruguay61:571,96026,877
Malaysia61:4,915,704170,578
Anguilla51:2,687256
Chile41:4,404,11844,633
Singapore41:1,376,92628,409
Scotland31:1,784,60641,943
Denmark21:2,822,35876,882
Trinidad and Tobago21:681,98817,017
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Saint Martin11:35,156229
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
Malawi11:17,119,10934,144
Belarus11:9,501,059159,228
Azerbaijan11:9,649,12247,873
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Egypt11:91,935,754132,737
Cyprus11:884,87613,055
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland41:1,107,46726,093
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England2111:115,52311,173
Scotland81:467,90212,875
Wales21:784,20816,349
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States441:1,141,33465,198

Webbe (15) may also be a first name.

Webbe Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from an occupation. 'the webbe,' i.e. a weaver. Middle English Webbe.

'My wife was a webbe, And woolen cloth made.' - Piers Plowman.

'An haberdasher, and a carpenter, A webbe, a deyer, and a tapiser.' - Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. 363-4.

This surname does not require any modern instances. The directories teem with representatives, v. Weaver and Webster.

Adam le Webbe, Essex, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Elyas le Webbe, Buckinghamshire, ibid.

Roger le Webbe. Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem.

Simon le Webbe. Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis.

Robert le Webbe, Somerset, 1327: Tax Roll.

Johannes Wybbe, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

1603. Nicholas Webbe, of Chester: Wills at Chester.

1623. William Webb, of Chester: ibid.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(English) Weaver [Middle English webbe, Old English webba (m.), webbe (from), weaver] Adam le Webbe.—Hundred Rolls My wif was a webbe, And wollen cloth made; She spak to spynnesteres To spynnen it oute.—Piers Plowman, 2901-4.

A webbe, a dyere, and a tapycer.—Chaucer, Cant. Tales, A 362.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

(English) One who wove cloth, either a male or a female.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

Anglo-Saxon webba, a weaver. H.R. Le Webbe.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

(H.R. Le Webbe). From Anglo-Saxon webba, a weaver. Hence Whip. compare the names Whipp, Whippy, Whippey, Whippo, Whipple, Whippell, Whippen, Whipping, Wipkin; the Old German Wippo, Wippa, Wibi, Wivikin, Wipilo, and the Modern German Webe and Wibel.

Ludus Patronymicus (1868) by Richard Stephen Charnock

Webb. —This name is confined south of a line drawn from the Wash to the Dee. It is most numerous in Somerset and Wilts, in the west of England; but is also well represented in Suffolk in the east of England and in Northamptonshire in the midlands.

Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy

Webbe Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Webbe Come From? nationality or country of origin

Webbe is found most in The United States. It can occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Webbe? popularity and diffusion

It is the 274,674th most frequently used surname on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 5,153,851 people. The surname Webbe is primarily found in The Americas, where 60 percent of Webbe live; 35 percent live in North America and 35 percent live in Anglo-North America. Webbe is also the 2,900,335th most frequently occurring first name world-wide It is held by 15 people.

The surname Webbe is most commonly occurring in The United States, where it is held by 472 people, or 1 in 767,921. In The United States it is most frequent in: Missouri, where 22 percent are found, New York, where 14 percent are found and Massachusetts, where 11 percent are found. Without taking into account The United States it occurs in 32 countries. It is also found in England, where 21 percent are found and Saint Kitts and Nevis, where 16 percent are found.

Webbe Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Webbe has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Webbe surname expanded 1,073 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 144 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it expanded 2,200 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Scotland it declined 62 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Webbe Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the surname is principally Catholic (50%) in Ireland.

In The United States those bearing the Webbe last name are 0.47000000000001% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 53.7% being registered to vote for the party.

The amount Webbe earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 0.73% less than the national average, earning $42,833 USD per year and in Canada they earn 9.31% more than the national average, earning $54,309 CAD per year.

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