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UK surname

Culpin

In the 1881 census there were 428 people recorded with the Culpin surname, ranking it #7,587 among surnames in the records. By 2016, the modern count was 439, ranked #11,007, down from #7,587 in 1881.

The strongest historical links point to St Ives, St Pancras and Edith Weston. In the modern distribution records, the strongest local clusters include Melton, Rutland and South Holland.

Across the surname records, the highest recorded count for Culpin is 597 in 1911. Compared with 1881, the name has stayed broadly stable by 2.6%.

1881 census count

428

Ranked #7,587

Modern count

439

2016, ranked #11,007

Peak year

1911

597 bearers

Map years

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1851 to 2016

Key insights

  • Culpin had 428 recorded bearers in 1881, making it the #7,587 surname in that year.
  • The latest modern count shown here is 439 in 2016, ranked #11,007.
  • Within the historical census years, the highest count was 597 in 1911.
  • The contemporary neighbourhood profile most associated with the surname is Rural Amenity.

Culpin surname distribution map

The map shows where the Culpin surname is concentrated in each census or modern distribution year. Darker areas mean a stronger local concentration.

Distribution map

Culpin surname density by area, 1881 census.

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Timeline

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Culpin over time

The table below tracks recorded surname counts and rank from the 19th-century census years through the modern adult-register period.

Year Period Count Rank
1851 historical 194 #10,662
1861 historical 293 #8,589
1881 historical 428 #7,587
1891 historical 506 #7,356
1901 historical 574 #7,311
1911 historical 597 #6,867
1997 modern 463 #9,850
1998 modern 467 #10,120
1999 modern 473 #10,069
2000 modern 482 #9,901
2001 modern 467 #9,965
2002 modern 471 #10,076
2003 modern 457 #10,156
2004 modern 453 #10,251
2005 modern 435 #10,480
2006 modern 436 #10,506
2007 modern 426 #10,809
2008 modern 434 #10,756
2009 modern 447 #10,742
2010 modern 458 #10,756
2011 modern 449 #10,807
2012 modern 437 #10,915
2013 modern 451 #10,814
2014 modern 451 #10,882
2015 modern 440 #11,017
2016 modern 439 #11,007

Geography

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Where Culpins are most common

Historical parish links are strongest around St Ives, St Pancras, Edith Weston, Peterborough St John the Baptist and Leicester St Margaret and Bishop's Fee, Leicester All Saints, Blackfriars. These are the places where the surname stands out most clearly in the older records.

The modern local-area list points to Melton, Rutland, South Holland, North West Leicestershire and South Kesteven. Treat these as concentration signals, not proof that every family line began there.

Some modern areas include a three-digit suffix, such as Leeds 110. The suffix is a small-area code, so it stays in the table while the prose uses the plain place name.

Top historical parishes

Rank Parish Area
1 St Ives Huntingdonshire
2 St Pancras London (North Districts)
3 Edith Weston Rutland
4 Peterborough St John the Baptist Northamptonshire
5 Leicester St Margaret and Bishop's Fee, Leicester All Saints, Blackfriars Leicestershire

Top modern areas

Rank Area District
1 Melton 001 Melton
2 Rutland 005 Rutland
3 South Holland 005 South Holland
4 North West Leicestershire 007 North West Leicestershire
5 South Kesteven 008 South Kesteven

Forenames

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First names often paired with Culpin

These lists show first names that appear often with the Culpin surname in historical and recent records.

Modern profile

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Neighbourhood profile for Culpin

Modern surname records can be compared with neighbourhood classifications. For Culpin, this points to the kinds of places where the surname is most concentrated today.

These neighbourhood labels describe areas, not individual people. They are useful because surnames often cluster through family history, migration, housing patterns and local work. A surname can be strongest in one type of neighbourhood even when people with that name live across the country.

The UK classification gives the national picture. The London classification is more specific to the capital, where housing, age profile, tenure and population mix can look quite different from the rest of the UK.

UK neighbourhood type

UK Output Area Classification

Supergroup

Suburbanites and Peri-Urbanities

Group

Rural Amenity

Nationally, the Culpin surname is most associated with neighbourhoods classed as Rural Amenity, within Suburbanites and Peri-Urbanities. This does not mean every Culpin household fits that profile, but it gives a useful signal about where the modern surname distribution is strongest.

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Group profile

This Group comprises older parents or retirees, with no resident dependent children, and with the lowest residential densities in this Supergroup. Predominantly UK-born, residents typically live in detached houses, although others do live in semi-detached and terraced properties. The level of multiple car ownership is the highest in this Supergroup. Most houses are owner occupied although social renting is also present. Many concentrations occur in high amenity rural locations, such as Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Wider pattern

Pervasive throughout the UK, members of this Supergroup typically own (or are buying) their detached, semi-detached or terraced homes. They are also typically educated to A Level/Highers or degree level and work in skilled or professional occupations. Typically born in the UK, some families have children, although the median adult age is above 45 and some property has become under-occupied after children have left home. This Supergroup is pervasive not only in suburban locations, but also in neighbourhoods at or beyond the edge of cities that adjoin rural parts of the country.

London neighbourhood type

London Output Area Classification

Supergroup

Professional Employment and Family Lifecycles

Group

Inner London Working Professionals

Within London, Culpin is most associated with areas classed as Inner London Working Professionals, part of Professional Employment and Family Lifecycles. This gives the surname a London-specific profile rather than forcing the capital into the same pattern as the rest of the country.

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Group profile

These primarily Inner London neighbourhoods are more densely populated than the Supergroup average. Residents have a younger over-all age profile than the Supergroup as a whole, and are less likely to be owner occupiers. Full time employment is more common than elsewhere in the Supergroup and multiple car ownership is uncommon. Chinese and non-EU-born European migrants are less in evidence than elsewhere in the Supergroup.

Wider London pattern

These neighbourhoods house people of all ages, predominantly of White British or European extraction. Resident turnover is low. Religious affiliation is less common than average and tends to be Christian if expressed. Homeownership, typically of terraced houses, is common but use of the social rented sector is not. Employment is typically in professional, managerial and associate professional or technical occupations. There are few full-time students. Level 4 qualifications are common. More households lack dependent children than have them which, considered alongside low levels of crowding and over-all age structure, indicates that many households may be post child-rearing and in late middle age. Incidence of disability is low, as is residence in communal establishments.

Healthy neighbourhoods

Access to healthy assets and hazards

Culpin is most concentrated in decile 5 for access to healthy assets and hazards. This places the surname near the middle of the scale.

Lower deciles point towards weaker access to healthy assets or stronger exposure to local hazards. Higher deciles point towards stronger access and fewer hazards.

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Lower access Higher access

Neighbourhood deprivation

Index of Multiple Deprivation

Culpin falls in decile 7 for neighbourhood deprivation. This puts the surname near the middle of the scale.

Decile 1 represents the more deprived end of the scale. Decile 10 represents the less deprived end.

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More deprived Less deprived

Broadband speed

Fixed broadband download speed

The modern neighbourhood pattern for Culpin is most associated with a typical fixed broadband download band of 30-40 mbit/s.

The scale below places that band in context, from slower local download bands through to faster ones.

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Area snapshot

Ethnic group estimate

Most common ethnic group estimate
White - British

This describes the area pattern most associated with Culpin, not the ethnicity of every person with the surname.

1881 census detail

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Culpin families in the 1881 census

These tables use 1881 census entries for people recorded with the Culpin surname. Use the location tables for concentration, then the name and occupation tables for the people behind the surname.

Top counties

Total is the county count. Frequency and index adjust for local population size, so they are better concentration signals. Northamptonshire leads with 85 Culpins recorded in 1881 and an index of 21.60x.

County Total Index
Northamptonshire 85 21.60x
Rutland 54 175.78x
Yorkshire 48 1.16x
Lincolnshire 47 7.02x
Middlesex 37 0.88x
Surrey 25 1.23x
Huntingdonshire 24 28.88x
Leicestershire 22 4.74x
Cambridgeshire 19 7.17x
Essex 15 1.82x
Hertfordshire 13 4.51x
Lancashire 11 0.22x
Bedfordshire 6 2.77x
Cheshire 5 0.54x
Berkshire 3 0.96x
Durham 3 0.24x
Derbyshire 2 0.31x
Kent 2 0.14x
Nottinghamshire 2 0.35x
Warwickshire 2 0.19x
Gloucestershire 1 0.12x
Perthshire 1 0.53x
Staffordshire 1 0.07x
Worcestershire 1 0.18x

Top districts and towns

Districts give a more local view than counties. Total shows raw records, while frequency and index show local concentration. Edith Weston in Rutland leads with 24 Culpins recorded in 1881 and an index of 4800.00x.

Place Total Index
Edith Weston 24 4800.00x
St Ives 17 394.43x
Castor 16 958.08x
Peterborough 15 52.63x
Spalding 15 112.95x
St Pancras London 13 3.86x
Battersea 12 7.79x
Easton 12 845.07x
Marsden In Almondbury 12 318.30x
Stevenage 12 268.46x
Ryhall 11 1078.43x
Soyland 10 201.21x
Marston 9 2045.45x
Thornhaugh 9 2571.43x
Tur Langton 9 2250.00x
Scarborough 8 21.23x
Empingham 7 593.22x
Great Easton 7 909.09x
Paston 7 419.16x
Streatham 7 22.54x
Thorney 7 238.10x
Walthamstow 7 23.55x
Bassingthorpe 6 3157.89x
Desborough 6 202.70x
Downham 6 212.77x
Islington London 6 1.48x
Wansford 6 2857.14x
Checkley Cum Wrinehill 5 2083.33x
Hackney London 5 2.13x
Halifax 5 8.21x
Manea 5 299.40x
Ridlington 5 1470.59x
Shillington 5 156.74x
Stoke Newington London 5 15.34x
Toxteth Park 5 2.97x
Worsley 5 16.33x
Burton Coggles 4 1081.08x
Elton 4 344.83x
Kings Cliffe 4 218.58x
Lambeth 4 1.10x
Newborough 4 400.00x
St Katherine Creechurch 4 555.56x
West Ham 4 2.19x
Chingford 3 150.75x
Helpstone 3 294.12x
Huddersfield 3 4.97x
Leeds 3 1.28x
Manton 3 666.67x
Reading St Giles 3 9.73x
Rushton 3 422.54x
Helmington Row 2 34.48x
Leicester St Margaret 2 1.77x
Leicester St Mary 2 5.34x
Louth 2 13.05x
Oakham Lordshold 2 62.11x
Skegness 2 104.17x
Southwark St George Martyr 2 2.38x
Sowerby In Halifax 2 14.75x
Stamford All Sts 2 53.33x
Aston 1 0.34x
Badlesmere 1 454.55x
Barrow 1 588.24x
Bradford 1 1.00x
Egleton 1 555.56x
Goole 1 14.39x
Haddon 1 500.00x
Heptonstall 1 17.18x
Hitchin 1 7.68x
Linthorpe 1 4.04x
March 1 11.26x
Market Deeping 1 57.47x
Newark Upon Trent 1 4.93x
Norbury 1 175.44x
North Rauceby 1 256.41x
North Witham 1 294.12x
Radford 1 3.49x
Spotland 1 1.81x
St Andrew Holborn London 1 5.52x
Westoe 1 1.42x
Woodford 1 10.70x

Top female names

These are the female first names most often recorded with the Culpin surname in 1881. Names are not merged, so initials, variant spellings and transcription quirks can appear as separate rows.

Name Count
Mary 26
Elizabeth 22
Sarah 16
Annie 10
Emily 10
Alice 9
Emma 8
Ann 7
Ellen 5
Ethel 5
Jane 5
Catherine 4
Charlotte 4
Edith 4
Florence 4
Harriet 4
Lydia 4
Ruth 4
Caroline 3
Eliza 3
Fanny 3
Julia 3
Maria 3
Martha 3
Maryann 3
Agnes 2
Bertha 2
Elizth. 2
Frances 2
Kate 2
Rachel 2
Selina 2
Sophia 2
Ada 1
Agns 1
Amanda 1
Anne 1
Biddy 1
Blanche 1
Esther 1
Ethra 1
Florrie 1
Isabella 1
Juliet 1
Laura 1
Lavinia 1
Lily 1
Louisa 1
Maran 1
Susan 1

Top male names

These are the male first names most often recorded with the Culpin surname in 1881. Names are not merged, so initials, variant spellings and transcription quirks can appear as separate rows.

Name Count
John 26
William 24
Henry 18
Thomas 15
George 13
Richard 13
James 12
Alfred 6
Arthur 5
Charles 5
Robert 5
Albert 3
Frank 3
Fredk. 3
Joseph 3
Benjamin 2
David 2
Edwin 2
Fred 2
Herbert 2
Hosea 2
Millice 2
Samuel 2
Tom 2
Ben 1
Charlie 1
Chas.E. 1
Chas.Hy. 1
Clarence 1
Daniel 1
Ebenezer 1
Edward 1
Ewart 1
Francis 1
Fred.S.B. 1
Frederick 1
Fredrick 1
Harry 1
I. 1
Leonard 1
Lewis 1
Michal 1
Milli 1
Millias 1
Richd.M. 1
Robt.Hy. 1
Sarjeant 1
Simon 1
Timothy 1
Wright 1

FAQ

Culpin surname: questions and answers

How common was the Culpin surname in 1881?

In 1881, 428 people were recorded with the Culpin surname. That placed it at #7,587 in the surname rankings for that year.

How common is the Culpin surname today?

The latest modern count shown here is 439 in 2016. That gives Culpin a modern rank of #11,007.

What does the Culpin map show?

The map shows local surname concentration for the selected year. Darker areas have a stronger concentration of Culpin bearers relative to the surrounding population.

What records is this surname page based on?

The historical counts come from census surname records. The modern counts and neighbourhood summaries come from later surname distribution records. Counts are recorded bearers in those records, not a live estimate of everyone with the name today.