Top surnames from the 1881 census in Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk

Caistor St Edmund is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Norfolk

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
DOWE117.692312,222.22
WARNES96.29371,914.89
FISK74.8951921.05
READ74.895175.92
CORY74.89511,346.15
SARGENT64.1958272.73
WILDEN64.19583,157.89
WHARTON53.4965250.00
CHAPMAN42.797219.69
FISHER42.797223.89
BAXTER42.797246.95
SWINGER42.797213,333.33
FULLER42.797269.20
NAILOR42.79724,444.44
THETFORD32.09794,285.71
GOODCHILD32.0979215.83
WATSON32.09799.04
LITTLEWOOD32.0979163.04
ADCOCK21.3986141.84
KING21.39866.42
HEWITT21.398628.69
RANDALL21.398644.64
LAST10.699387.72
TUFFIN10.6993416.67
HAWES10.699356.82
PANTER10.6993204.08
MACE10.699379.37
CANNELL10.6993161.29
WAITES10.6993277.78
OAKLEY10.699333.00
TUNGATE10.6993909.09
ENGLISH10.699337.17

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
SWINGER0.1414313333.3333
DOWE0.1414312222.2222
NAILOR0.141434444.4444
THETFORD0.141434285.7143
WILDEN0.141433157.8947
WARNES0.141431914.8936
CORY0.141431346.1538
FISK0.14143921.0526
TUNGATE0.14143909.0909
TUFFIN0.14143416.6667
WAITES0.14143277.7778
SARGENT0.14143272.7273
WHARTON0.14143250.0000
GOODCHILD0.14143215.8273
PANTER0.14143204.0816
LITTLEWOOD0.14143163.0435
CANNELL0.14143161.2903
ADCOCK0.14143141.8440
LAST0.1414387.7193
MACE0.1414379.3651
READ0.1414375.9219
FULLER0.1414369.2042
HAWES0.1414356.8182
BAXTER0.1414346.9484
RANDALL0.1414344.6429
ENGLISH0.1414337.1747
OAKLEY0.1414333.0033
HEWITT0.1414328.6944
FISHER0.1414323.8949
CHAPMAN0.1414319.6947
WATSON0.141439.0443
KING0.141436.4164

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 143 people called SWINGER in Caistor St Edmund 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 13333.3333 in Caistor St Edmund means that 13333.3333% of the people in Caistor St Edmund on census day were called SWINGER.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called SWINGER 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 SWINGER 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 SWINGER 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 SWINGER here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.14 in Caistor St Edmund means that you are 0.14 times as likely to find someone with the surname of SWINGER in Caistor St Edmund than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Caistor St Edmund in 1881

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

ADCOCK (2)  ARTHY (2)  BAXTER (4)  BILLIAM (1)  CANNELL (1)  CHAPMAN (4)  COGMAN (7)  CORY (7)  CULLING (3)  DOWE (11)  FISHER (4)  FISK (7)  FULLER (4)  GOODCHILD (3)  GOSTLING (6)  HAWES (1)  HEWITT (2)  ENGLISH (1)  KING (2)  LAST (1)  LITTLEWOOD (3)  MACE (1)  NAILOR (4)  NUDDS (8)  OAKLEY (1)  PANTER (1)  PANK (2)  RANDALL (2)  READ (7)  SARGENT (6)  SWINGER (4)  THETFORD (3)  TUFFIN (1)  TUNGATE (1)  UTTING (2)  WARNES (9)  WATSON (3)  WHARTON (5)  WILDEN (6)  WAITES (1) 

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