Statistics for Last Names That Started As Professions

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Hint	Name	% Correct
A person who makes bread and cakes as a trade	Baker	100%
A person who grows fruit, vegetables and rears animals for food	Farmer	98%
A person who kills animals for sport or food	Hunt / Hunter	98%
A person who prepares food	Cook / Cooke	97%
A person who catches fish for sport or food	Fisher / Fischer	97%
A person who makes beer	Brewer / Brewster	86%
A person who sections animals into smaller pieces	Butcher	85%
A person who makes, mends, or alters clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments	Taylor	83%
A public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law	Judge	81%
Any maker but particularly one who works in metals	Smith / Smithe	75%
A person who takes care of the household of a sovereign or nobleman	Chamberlain / Butler	71%
A person who shoots with a bow and arrow; bowman	Archer	69%
A person whose trade is building with stones, bricks, cinder blocks, or tiles, usually with the use of mortar or cement	Mason	64%
A person who makes drinking and storage vessels from clay	Potter	59%
A person who tints cloth	Dyer	58%
A person who tends and cultivates a patch of land as a pastime or for a living	Gardener	47%
A person who makes or repairs wooden casks or tubs	Cooper	41%
A maker or seller of gloves	Glover	39%
A maker of arrows	Fletcher	36%
A maker of objects of wood, metal, or bone by turning on a lathe	Turner	27%
A lumberjack	Sawyer	25%
A gamekeeper or park employee	Parker	20%
A young person employed to run errands, open doors, etc	Page / Paige	19%
A guard or watchman	Ward	14%