1881 census county

Berkshire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Berkshire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the county. Frequency shows the local share of the population. Index compares that share with the wider census.

County summary

8,987 surnames are listed for Berkshire, covering 201,830 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Spanswick, with 72 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Berkshire

Total favours larger counties and larger families. Frequency and index are better clues for where a surname stood out locally. Values above 1.00x mean the surname was more concentrated here than in the wider 1881 census.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
601	Spanswick	72	0.030%	36.97x
602	Waldron	72	0.030%	3.73x
603	Wing	72	0.030%	5.22x
604	Adey	71	0.030%	10.06x
605	Cheeseman	71	0.030%	4.11x
606	Didcock	71	0.030%	71.84x
607	Harrington	71	0.030%	1.71x
608	Hope	71	0.030%	0.95x
609	Hutton	71	0.030%	1.08x
610	Moody	71	0.030%	1.24x
611	Newell	71	0.030%	2.05x
612	Paice	71	0.030%	10.39x
613	Perrin	71	0.030%	3.16x
614	Rowland	71	0.030%	1.14x
615	Sherman	71	0.030%	5.73x
616	Attwell	70	0.030%	14.49x
617	Bloomfield	70	0.030%	2.51x
618	Bush	70	0.030%	1.29x
619	Bushnell	70	0.030%	13.17x
620	Champ	70	0.030%	15.30x
621	Graham	70	0.030%	0.28x
622	Pusey	70	0.030%	14.51x
623	Stanley	70	0.030%	0.83x
624	Barber	69	0.030%	0.52x
625	Birch	69	0.030%	0.77x
626	Hatton	69	0.030%	1.60x
627	Lawrance	69	0.030%	4.82x
628	Naish	69	0.030%	8.80x
629	Stokes	69	0.030%	0.75x
630	Webster	69	0.030%	0.36x
631	Digweed	68	0.030%	33.29x
632	Hathaway	68	0.030%	5.98x
633	Sharpe	68	0.030%	1.05x
634	Sturgess	68	0.030%	5.41x
635	Thorp	68	0.030%	2.29x
636	Wake	68	0.030%	3.85x
637	Whale	68	0.030%	5.52x
638	Blackman	67	0.030%	2.51x
639	Cooke	67	0.030%	0.55x
640	Cope	67	0.030%	1.35x
641	Culley	67	0.030%	7.21x
642	Greenough	67	0.030%	12.10x
643	Grover	67	0.030%	4.91x
644	Herman	67	0.030%	16.91x
645	Ryder	67	0.030%	1.76x
646	Tarrant	67	0.030%	4.33x
647	Avery	66	0.030%	1.79x
648	Baverstock	66	0.030%	13.04x
649	Crockford	66	0.030%	8.86x
650	Grainger	66	0.030%	1.96x
651	Hickman	66	0.030%	1.79x
652	Pearson	66	0.030%	0.26x
653	Purbrick	66	0.030%	60.50x
654	Titcombe	66	0.030%	26.36x
655	Abery	65	0.030%	42.07x
656	Bedwell	65	0.030%	7.61x
657	Broughton	65	0.030%	1.59x
658	Eldridge	65	0.030%	2.71x
659	Hamilton	65	0.030%	0.40x
660	Harwood	65	0.030%	1.11x
661	Hester	65	0.030%	7.96x
662	Morland	65	0.030%	10.56x
663	Ralph	65	0.030%	1.95x
664	Strong	65	0.030%	1.99x
665	Bowden	64	0.030%	1.01x
666	Flitter	64	0.030%	115.05x
667	Goodwin	64	0.030%	0.55x
668	Hazel	64	0.030%	9.11x
669	Langton	64	0.030%	3.68x
670	Nailer	64	0.030%	63.34x
671	Poffley	64	0.030%	78.75x
672	Pyke	64	0.030%	8.45x
673	Radbourne	64	0.030%	56.40x
674	Silvester	64	0.030%	3.78x
675	Titcomb	64	0.030%	26.73x
676	Mattingley	63	0.030%	41.37x
677	Plummer	63	0.030%	2.15x
678	Walton	63	0.030%	0.41x
679	Wild	63	0.030%	0.71x
680	Brunsden	62	0.030%	34.70x
681	Burnham	62	0.030%	4.60x
682	Collis	62	0.030%	2.73x
683	Gunter	62	0.030%	8.06x
684	Hawkes	62	0.030%	1.75x
685	Keates	62	0.030%	8.68x
686	Manning	62	0.030%	0.89x
687	Parr	62	0.030%	1.13x
688	Pinnock	62	0.030%	8.96x
689	Purton	62	0.030%	18.37x
690	Sparks	62	0.030%	1.87x
691	Tovey	62	0.030%	4.82x
692	Webber	62	0.030%	0.93x
693	Woodage	62	0.030%	60.92x
694	Boshier	61	0.030%	64.58x
695	Child	61	0.030%	1.64x
696	Hinton	61	0.030%	2.07x
697	Hollis	61	0.030%	2.01x
698	Hooper	61	0.030%	0.66x
699	Kelly	61	0.030%	0.25x
700	Lunn	61	0.030%	2.15x