Top surnames from the 1881 census in Kennett, Cambridgeshire

Kennett is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Cambridgeshire

Registration districts were originally created for the registration of births, marriages and deaths, rather than specifically for the census. In many cases, registration districts were broadly equivalent to parishes, but not necessarily so.

Top surnames by total occurrences

Surname Total Frequency Index
WRIGHT169.195428.66
BAKER126.896631.47
WATKINSON126.8966588.24
WAKE84.5977571.43
JOHNSON84.597713.68
HILLS74.0230145.53
LANGHAM74.0230921.05
WILLIAMS63.44834.80
PAYNE52.873631.93
HARDING52.873639.71
KIDD52.8736141.24
NORMAN52.873662.03
NEWMAN31.724123.18
INGLE31.7241422.54
BLYTH31.7241109.49
DUCKING21.149420,000.00
CORNWELL21.1494200.00
BREWSTER21.1494119.05
NORTH21.149434.66
TYLER21.149438.91
SPALDING21.1494160.00
COOPER21.14944.72
WILSON21.14942.50
DUFFIELD21.1494132.45
TURNER21.14944.13
BURGESS10.57478.28
PRICE10.57473.28
NUNN10.574732.79
FULLER10.574714.20
TRACEY10.574790.91
SHARP10.57476.90
WEBB10.57474.24
FROST10.574710.22
MILTON10.574741.67
DEVONISH10.57475,000.00
ROWLING10.5747294.12
PARKER10.57473.02
GODFREY10.574719.38
LAST10.574771.94
CRICK10.574796.15
SIMPSON10.57473.29
JONES10.57470.51

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
DUCKING0.1717420000.0000
DEVONISH0.171745000.0000
LANGHAM0.17174921.0526
WATKINSON0.17174588.2353
WAKE0.17174571.4286
INGLE0.17174422.5352
ROWLING0.17174294.1176
CORNWELL0.17174200.0000
SPALDING0.17174160.0000
HILLS0.17174145.5301
KIDD0.17174141.2429
DUFFIELD0.17174132.4503
BREWSTER0.17174119.0476
BLYTH0.17174109.4891
CRICK0.1717496.1538
TRACEY0.1717490.9091
LAST0.1717471.9424
NORMAN0.1717462.0347
MILTON0.1717441.6667
HARDING0.1717439.7141
TYLER0.1717438.9105
NORTH0.1717434.6620
NUNN0.1717432.7869
PAYNE0.1717431.9285
BAKER0.1717431.4713
WRIGHT0.1717428.6636
NEWMAN0.1717423.1839
GODFREY0.1717419.3798
FULLER0.1717414.2045
JOHNSON0.1717413.6846
FROST0.1717410.2249
BURGESS0.171748.2781
SHARP0.171746.8966
WILLIAMS0.171744.8004
COOPER0.171744.7248
WEBB0.171744.2391
TURNER0.171744.1288
SIMPSON0.171743.2862
PRICE0.171743.2841
PARKER0.171743.0221
WILSON0.171742.5028
JONES0.171740.5075

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 174 people called DUCKING in Kennett at the time of the 1881 census.

The Frequency column shows the percentage of people in this county or town with this surname. For example, a frequency of 20000.0000 in Kennett means that 20000.0000% of the people in Kennett on census day were called DUCKING.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called DUCKING in this county or town, compared with the probability of finding them anywhere in Britain as a whole. An index of 1 means that if you pick someone at random from this county or town, you have exactly the same probability of picking someone called DUCKING as if you picked at random from the whole of the UK. Where the index is higher than 1, then you are more likely to find someone called DUCKING here than if you picked from the UK as a whole, and where it's lower then you are less likely. The actual figure shows the level of probability - for example, a figure of 2 would indicate that you are twice as likely to find someone called DUCKING here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.17 in Kennett means that you are 0.17 times as likely to find someone with the surname of DUCKING in Kennett than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Kennett in 1881

(including typos, unknowns and the ones we don't have any data for!)

ABRA (1)  BAKER (12)  BLYTH (3)  BREWSTER (2)  BARKAM (1)  BURGESS (1)  COOPER (2)  CORNWELL (2)  CRICK (1)  DEVONISH (1)  DUCKING (2)  DUFFIELD (2)  FULLER (1)  FROST (1)  GODFREY (1)  HARDING (5)  HEFFER (1)  HILLS (7)  HYNA (1)  INGLE (3)  JOHNSON (8)  JONES (1)  KIDD (5)  LANGHAM (7)  LAST (1)  MENDHAM (5)  MILTON (1)  NEWMAN (3)  NORMAN (5)  NORTH (2)  NUNN (1)  ORBELL (2)  PARKER (1)  PAYNE (5)  PEDDAR (3)  PRICE (1)  RANKING (1)  RANNS (14)  ROULTER (2)  ROWLING (1)  SETFIELD (1)  SHARP (1)  SIMPSON (1)  SPALDING (2)  TRACEY (1)  TURNER (2)  TYLER (2)  WAKE (8)  WATKINSON (12)  WEBB (1)  WILLIAMS (6)  WILSON (2)  WRIGHT (16) 

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