1881 census county

Hertfordshire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Hertfordshire 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

8,746 surnames are listed for Hertfordshire, covering 184,439 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Vale, with 25 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Hertfordshire

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
1401	Vale	25	0.010%	1.74x
1402	Vaughan	25	0.010%	0.36x
1403	Wake	25	0.010%	1.54x
1404	Woolmer	25	0.010%	7.67x
1405	Bail	24	0.010%	20.06x
1406	Barron	24	0.010%	0.77x
1407	Batt	24	0.010%	1.76x
1408	Bayley	24	0.010%	0.74x
1409	Biscoe	24	0.010%	17.94x
1410	Blakes	24	0.010%	44.08x
1411	Blowes	24	0.010%	21.90x
1412	Bowler	24	0.010%	0.98x
1413	Byatt	24	0.010%	4.78x
1414	Cains	24	0.010%	9.44x
1415	Christian	24	0.010%	1.20x
1416	Cope	24	0.010%	0.53x
1417	Cornell	24	0.010%	1.78x
1418	Dent	24	0.010%	0.63x
1419	Dorman	24	0.010%	3.71x
1420	Falder	24	0.010%	48.91x
1421	Filler	24	0.010%	45.77x
1422	Good	24	0.010%	0.96x
1423	Hebbs	24	0.010%	44.08x
1424	Jacobs	24	0.010%	0.50x
1425	Joyce	24	0.010%	0.49x
1426	Kefford	24	0.010%	12.61x
1427	Knightley	24	0.010%	14.11x
1428	Leonard	24	0.010%	0.55x
1429	Logsdon	24	0.010%	44.08x
1430	Lowin	24	0.010%	27.67x
1431	Mutton	24	0.010%	3.22x
1432	Patrick	24	0.010%	0.60x
1433	Patten	24	0.010%	1.90x
1434	Peel	24	0.010%	0.66x
1435	Revell	24	0.010%	2.06x
1436	Rider	24	0.010%	1.22x
1437	Ryan	24	0.010%	0.38x
1438	Salt	24	0.010%	0.80x
1439	Samuel	24	0.010%	1.00x
1440	Tofield	24	0.010%	14.69x
1441	Unwin	24	0.010%	1.20x
1442	Wrangles	24	0.010%	96.50x
1443	Ashton	23	0.010%	0.23x
1444	Beeston	23	0.010%	2.71x
1445	Boatman	23	0.010%	16.53x
1446	Bridgeman	23	0.010%	3.11x
1447	Bunn	23	0.010%	1.17x
1448	Buxton	23	0.010%	0.76x
1449	Camfield	23	0.010%	11.44x
1450	Capel	23	0.010%	3.86x
1451	Chittenden	23	0.010%	4.52x
1452	Chopping	23	0.010%	10.59x
1453	Cooley	23	0.010%	4.46x
1454	Coot	23	0.010%	25.72x
1455	Cresswell	23	0.010%	1.08x
1456	Dayton	23	0.010%	32.28x
1457	Debnam	23	0.010%	15.00x
1458	Dew	23	0.010%	1.96x
1459	Ellingham	23	0.010%	7.07x
1460	Farnham	23	0.010%	5.65x
1461	Fitzgerald	23	0.010%	0.65x
1462	Gibbons	23	0.010%	0.36x
1463	Goodfellow	23	0.010%	1.29x
1464	Handscomb	23	0.010%	21.12x
1465	Haydon	23	0.010%	1.82x
1466	Henley	23	0.010%	1.49x
1467	Hilliard	23	0.010%	4.22x
1468	Hough	23	0.010%	0.66x
1469	Kidd	23	0.010%	0.56x
1470	Kidman	23	0.010%	5.67x
1471	Lay	23	0.010%	1.54x
1472	Liberty	23	0.010%	31.10x
1473	Maddox	23	0.010%	2.24x
1474	Mayhew	23	0.010%	1.38x
1475	Mullett	23	0.010%	3.65x
1476	Parsley	23	0.010%	8.64x
1477	Pettit	23	0.010%	1.44x
1478	Pitt	23	0.010%	0.53x
1479	Pritchett	23	0.010%	4.78x
1480	Rawlings	23	0.010%	0.78x
1481	Reason	23	0.010%	3.92x
1482	Ridgway	23	0.010%	1.25x
1483	Sayer	23	0.010%	0.87x
1484	Shears	23	0.010%	2.60x
1485	Thacker	23	0.010%	1.58x
1486	Thomson	23	0.010%	0.09x
1487	Tookey	23	0.010%	8.79x
1488	Walkling	23	0.010%	14.14x
1489	Waring	23	0.010%	0.91x
1490	Whitbread	23	0.010%	2.86x
1491	Withers	23	0.010%	0.70x
1492	Wrenn	23	0.010%	11.37x
1493	Armatage	22	0.010%	14.87x
1494	Ashman	22	0.010%	1.68x
1495	Baldrey	22	0.010%	20.20x
1496	Barford	22	0.010%	4.28x
1497	Barlow	22	0.010%	0.20x
1498	Beasley	22	0.010%	1.01x
1499	Bevan	22	0.010%	0.45x
1500	Billington	22	0.010%	1.01x