1881 census place

Cheltenham surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the district or town. Frequency and index show whether the surname was unusually common locally.

Place summary

2,367 surnames are listed for Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, covering 26,948 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 779 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Cheltenham

Small places can have high concentration scores even when the raw count is modest. The index column helps separate genuinely local surnames from names that simply appear in large numbers everywhere.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
1	Smith	779	1.76%	1.25x
2	Williams	448	1.01%	1.41x
3	Taylor	342	0.770%	1.21x
4	Cook	333	0.750%	3.79x
5	Davis	308	0.700%	3.17x
6	Green	232	0.520%	1.86x
7	White	215	0.490%	1.51x
8	Harris	207	0.470%	1.84x
9	Hill	196	0.440%	1.74x
10	Price	193	0.440%	2.49x
11	Mills	191	0.430%	3.33x
12	Turner	189	0.430%	1.54x
13	Lewis	181	0.410%	1.56x
14	Morris	175	0.400%	1.78x
15	Cox	172	0.390%	2.57x
16	Webb	167	0.380%	2.79x
17	Lane	150	0.340%	4.92x
18	Phillips	149	0.340%	1.88x
19	Page	145	0.330%	4.10x
20	Hayward	137	0.310%	7.27x
21	Pearce	132	0.300%	3.25x
22	Powell	127	0.290%	2.30x
23	Herbert	126	0.290%	7.63x
24	Baker	124	0.280%	1.28x
25	King	120	0.270%	1.25x
26	Martin	120	0.270%	1.10x
27	Jenkins	108	0.240%	2.07x
28	Hooper	107	0.240%	5.72x
29	Matthews	106	0.240%	2.75x
30	Carter	101	0.230%	1.36x
31	Clarke	101	0.230%	1.13x
32	Stephens	100	0.230%	4.08x
33	Stevens	93	0.210%	2.02x
34	Gardner	92	0.210%	3.07x
35	Lloyd	88	0.200%	1.71x
36	Hopkins	87	0.200%	3.27x
37	Newman	85	0.190%	2.59x
38	Haines	83	0.190%	8.11x
39	Fisher	81	0.180%	1.57x
40	Long	81	0.180%	2.82x
41	Clifford	78	0.180%	8.58x
42	Hunt	78	0.180%	1.33x
43	Knight	78	0.180%	1.43x
44	Wheeler	78	0.180%	2.92x
45	Little	77	0.170%	3.68x
46	Watkins	77	0.170%	2.87x
47	Willis	76	0.170%	3.23x
48	Day	75	0.170%	1.80x
49	Hart	75	0.170%	1.99x
50	Poole	75	0.170%	3.52x
51	Skinner	75	0.170%	3.34x
52	Maisey	74	0.170%	75.50x
53	Dix	73	0.170%	16.73x
54	Bowles	72	0.160%	9.96x
55	Harvey	71	0.160%	1.50x
56	Lawrence	71	0.160%	2.47x
57	Baylis	70	0.160%	15.09x
58	Spencer	70	0.160%	1.73x
59	Welch	69	0.160%	4.44x
60	Dyer	68	0.150%	3.97x
61	Watts	68	0.150%	1.83x
62	Humphris	67	0.150%	62.78x
63	Bishop	66	0.150%	2.14x
64	Hawkins	65	0.150%	2.03x
65	Weaver	65	0.150%	5.65x
66	Butler	64	0.140%	1.49x
67	Harding	64	0.140%	2.00x
68	Phelps	64	0.140%	14.58x
69	Ballinger	63	0.140%	44.98x
70	Curtis	62	0.140%	2.47x
71	Ford	62	0.140%	1.44x
72	Wilkins	62	0.140%	3.17x
73	Andrews	61	0.140%	1.44x
74	Bartlett	61	0.140%	3.15x
75	Cooke	61	0.140%	2.50x
76	Mathews	61	0.140%	3.74x
77	Bond	60	0.140%	2.56x
78	Godwin	60	0.140%	10.49x
79	Holtham	60	0.140%	100.13x
80	West	59	0.130%	1.39x
81	Holder	58	0.130%	9.76x
82	Barnett	57	0.130%	2.86x
83	Mustoe	57	0.130%	90.65x
84	Cole	56	0.130%	1.39x
85	Hale	56	0.130%	3.53x
86	Sims	56	0.130%	4.23x
87	Boulton	55	0.120%	6.90x
88	Dodwell	55	0.120%	76.84x
89	Woodward	55	0.120%	2.52x
90	Griffin	54	0.120%	2.60x
91	Stone	54	0.120%	1.69x
92	Freeman	53	0.120%	1.88x
93	Hobbs	53	0.120%	3.29x
94	Pritchard	53	0.120%	2.23x
95	Gibbins	52	0.120%	15.35x
96	Gibbons	52	0.120%	3.66x
97	Hawker	51	0.120%	15.07x
98	Hyde	50	0.110%	3.68x
99	Stroud	50	0.110%	10.94x
100	Tanner	50	0.110%	5.04x