Top surnames from the 1881 census in Wentworth, Cambridgeshire

Wentworth 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
WHETSTONE2512.953411,904.76
RICHARDSON115.699533.49
DEWEY105.18131,219.51
POPE84.1451120.30
TAYLOR84.14516.48
GREY73.6269167.46
FEW73.62691,590.91
BOULTER63.1088612.24
GANDY63.1088769.23
DIMOCK63.10887,500.00
STUBBINS52.59071,562.50
CROW42.0725137.46
CLARK42.07256.90
SANDFORD31.5544218.98
CONSTABLE31.5544140.19
ALLUM21.0363273.97
ELLIS21.03637.14
MARTEN21.0363338.98
JONES21.03630.92
SALMONS21.0363740.74
LYON21.036349.51
COULTER21.0363206.19
HOWARD21.036310.56
BULLOCK21.036331.85
SMITH21.03630.73
BRITTAIN10.518167.11
GOODENOUGH10.5181181.82
YOUNG10.51812.41
POWER10.518138.76
GREEN10.51811.84
BARRETT10.51817.72
ROBERTS10.51811.38
LANE10.51817.52
HITCH10.5181196.08

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
WHETSTONE0.1919311904.7619
DIMOCK0.191937500.0000
FEW0.191931590.9091
STUBBINS0.191931562.5000
DEWEY0.191931219.5122
GANDY0.19193769.2308
SALMONS0.19193740.7407
BOULTER0.19193612.2449
MARTEN0.19193338.9831
ALLUM0.19193273.9726
SANDFORD0.19193218.9781
COULTER0.19193206.1856
HITCH0.19193196.0784
GOODENOUGH0.19193181.8182
GREY0.19193167.4641
CONSTABLE0.19193140.1869
CROW0.19193137.4570
POPE0.19193120.3008
BRITTAIN0.1919367.1141
LYON0.1919349.5050
POWER0.1919338.7597
RICHARDSON0.1919333.4855
BULLOCK0.1919331.8471
HOWARD0.1919310.5597
BARRETT0.191937.7160
LANE0.191937.5188
ELLIS0.191937.1352
CLARK0.191936.8954
TAYLOR0.191936.4819
YOUNG0.191932.4120
GREEN0.191931.8399
ROBERTS0.191931.3772
JONES0.191930.9150
SMITH0.191930.7339

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 193 people called WHETSTONE in Wentworth 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 11904.7619 in Wentworth means that 11904.7619% of the people in Wentworth on census day were called WHETSTONE.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called WHETSTONE 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 WHETSTONE 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 WHETSTONE 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 WHETSTONE here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.19 in Wentworth means that you are 0.19 times as likely to find someone with the surname of WHETSTONE in Wentworth than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Wentworth in 1881

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

ALLUM (2)  BARCOCK (2)  BARRETT (1)  BLOXAM (4)  BOULTER (6)  BRITTAIN (1)  BULLOCK (2)  CLARK (4)  COCKLE (4)  COCKHEL (8)  CONSTABLE (3)  COULTER (2)  COXALL (4)  CROW (4)  DEWEY (10)  DIMOCK (6)  ELLIS (2)  FEW (7)  GANDY (6)  GOODENOUGH (1)  GREE (2)  GREY (7)  GREEN (1)  HIAM (1)  HITCH (1)  HOWARD (2)  JONES (2)  LANE (1)  LEEDING (1)  LYON (2)  MARTEN (2)  MODEN (1)  MURFIT (4)  OVENHAM (1)  POPE (8)  POWER (1)  RAYNBIRD (3)  RICHARDSON (11)  ROBERTS (1)  ROWEL (4)  SALMONS (2)  SANDFORD (3)  SEPPINGS (2)  SHERRMAN (1)  SMITH (2)  STEVANS (3)  STUBBINS (5)  TAYLOR (8)  TOATES (6)  WHETSTONE (25)  YOUNG (1) 

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