Top surnames from the 1881 census in Sevington, Kent

Sevington is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Kent

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
MARSHALL108.620751.39
HORTON86.8966185.61
BURBRIDGE76.03451,750.00
STARR65.17241,052.63
MUNDAY65.1724441.18
WRIGHT65.172416.12
WARD65.172423.68
BARNES54.310335.82
PAINE54.3103312.50
CARTER54.310325.68
NEWNHAM43.4483800.00
CHAPMAN43.448324.29
BULL43.448381.63
BEDFORD32.5862109.09
SIMMONS32.586263.42
EARL32.5862197.37
GATES32.5862166.67
WILSON21.72413.75
STEVENS10.86218.26
HOAR10.8621208.33
ASHDOWN10.8621151.52
HANDFORD10.8621232.56
JARVIS10.862119.19
HILLS10.862131.15
RUSH10.862180.65
GOWER10.862181.97
LOWES10.8621149.25
BACK10.8621161.29
SMITH10.86210.61
HENLEY10.8621112.36
MOORE10.86214.31
WOODHAMS10.8621344.83
LANGSTON10.8621303.03

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
BURBRIDGE0.121161750.0000
STARR0.121161052.6316
NEWNHAM0.12116800.0000
MUNDAY0.12116441.1765
WOODHAMS0.12116344.8276
PAINE0.12116312.5000
LANGSTON0.12116303.0303
HANDFORD0.12116232.5581
HOAR0.12116208.3333
EARL0.12116197.3684
HORTON0.12116185.6148
GATES0.12116166.6667
BACK0.12116161.2903
ASHDOWN0.12116151.5152
LOWES0.12116149.2537
HENLEY0.12116112.3596
BEDFORD0.12116109.0909
GOWER0.1211681.9672
BULL0.1211681.6327
RUSH0.1211680.6452
SIMMONS0.1211663.4249
MARSHALL0.1211651.3875
BARNES0.1211635.8166
HILLS0.1211631.1526
CARTER0.1211625.6805
CHAPMAN0.1211624.2866
WARD0.1211623.6780
JARVIS0.1211619.1939
WRIGHT0.1211616.1247
STEVENS0.121168.2576
MOORE0.121164.3103
WILSON0.121163.7538
SMITH0.121160.6105

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 116 people called BURBRIDGE in Sevington 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 1750.0000 in Sevington means that 1750.0000% of the people in Sevington on census day were called BURBRIDGE.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called BURBRIDGE 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 BURBRIDGE 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 BURBRIDGE 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 BURBRIDGE here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.12 in Sevington means that you are 0.12 times as likely to find someone with the surname of BURBRIDGE in Sevington than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Sevington in 1881

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

APPS (3)  ASHDOWN (1)  BACK (1)  BARNES (5)  BEDFORD (3)  BULL (4)  BURBRIDGE (7)  CARTER (5)  CHAPMAN (4)  EARL (3)  GATES (3)  GOWER (1)  HANDFORD (1)  HENLEY (1)  HILLS (1)  HOAR (1)  HORTON (8)  JARVIS (1)  KEMBER (1)  LANGSTON (1)  LOWES (1)  MARSHALL (10)  MOORE (1)  MUNDAY (6)  NEWNHAM (4)  PAINE (5)  RUSH (1)  SILLIBOURNE (1)  SIMMONS (3)  SMITH (1)  STARR (6)  STEVENS (1)  STUTELY (4)  SWAFFER (1)  THORNBY (1)  WARD (6)  WILSON (2)  WOODHAMS (1)  WRIGHT (6) 

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