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 Ursell, with 50 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
101	Ursell	50	0.110%	217.11x
102	Caudle	49	0.110%	158.06x
103	Waite	49	0.110%	5.34x
104	Bird	48	0.110%	1.42x
105	Compton	48	0.110%	11.28x
106	Wakefield	48	0.110%	6.06x
107	Cull	47	0.110%	21.34x
108	Stallard	47	0.110%	24.11x
109	Whiting	47	0.110%	5.52x
110	Field	46	0.100%	2.09x
111	Jordan	46	0.100%	2.36x
112	Barrett	45	0.100%	1.52x
113	Clements	45	0.100%	3.07x
114	Greening	45	0.100%	18.31x
115	Tandy	45	0.100%	21.42x
116	Beard	44	0.100%	3.78x
117	Harper	44	0.100%	1.55x
118	Higgs	44	0.100%	5.46x
119	Reeves	44	0.100%	2.43x
120	Winstone	44	0.100%	37.83x
121	Arkell	43	0.100%	45.88x
122	Ayers	43	0.100%	16.20x
123	Bullock	43	0.100%	2.99x
124	Pike	43	0.100%	3.35x
125	Tovey	43	0.100%	16.60x
126	Attwood	42	0.100%	9.59x
127	Birt	42	0.100%	22.40x
128	Stokes	42	0.100%	2.25x
129	Alder	41	0.090%	12.98x
130	Butt	41	0.090%	7.19x
131	Crowther	41	0.090%	3.11x
132	Moulder	41	0.090%	51.53x
133	Packer	41	0.090%	8.81x
134	Sheppard	41	0.090%	2.68x
135	Staite	41	0.090%	87.91x
136	Jennings	40	0.090%	1.78x
137	Millard	40	0.090%	5.46x
138	Minett	40	0.090%	49.54x
139	Norman	40	0.090%	1.95x
140	Short	40	0.090%	2.32x
141	Walter	40	0.090%	5.91x
142	Baldwin	39	0.090%	2.07x
143	Chambers	39	0.090%	1.55x
144	Nicholls	39	0.090%	1.69x
145	Wilks	39	0.090%	5.61x
146	Buckle	38	0.090%	7.90x
147	Burrows	38	0.090%	1.96x
148	Clutterbuck	38	0.090%	24.71x
149	Deane	38	0.090%	10.29x
150	Fry	38	0.090%	2.68x
151	Aston	37	0.080%	5.07x
152	Austin	37	0.080%	1.71x
153	Channon	37	0.080%	32.56x
154	Cummings	37	0.080%	5.43x
155	Drinkwater	37	0.080%	8.49x
156	Niblett	37	0.080%	28.13x
157	Perkins	37	0.080%	1.86x
158	Potter	37	0.080%	1.29x
159	Gillett	36	0.080%	7.71x
160	Hicks	36	0.080%	1.95x
161	Humphries	36	0.080%	3.62x
162	Organ	36	0.080%	20.39x
163	Betteridge	35	0.080%	17.57x
164	Blackwell	35	0.080%	4.35x
165	Brookes	35	0.080%	3.37x
166	Sheen	35	0.080%	11.86x
167	Slade	35	0.080%	3.97x
168	Smart	35	0.080%	1.74x
169	Bendall	34	0.080%	21.13x
170	Bliss	34	0.080%	12.56x
171	Bubb	34	0.080%	29.49x
172	Cripps	34	0.080%	7.91x
173	Higgins	34	0.080%	1.52x
174	Holman	34	0.080%	5.42x
175	Merrett	34	0.080%	12.59x
176	Ricketts	34	0.080%	7.93x
177	Sadler	34	0.080%	3.26x
178	Stanton	34	0.080%	3.86x
179	Surman	34	0.080%	34.18x
180	Barnfield	33	0.070%	30.29x
181	Bellamy	33	0.070%	5.12x
182	Constable	33	0.070%	6.75x
183	Coombs	33	0.070%	4.42x
184	Hawkes	33	0.070%	4.63x
185	Hemming	33	0.070%	8.43x
186	Hodges	33	0.070%	2.55x
187	Scrivens	33	0.070%	24.98x
188	Tarling	33	0.070%	36.89x
189	Wintle	33	0.070%	26.30x
190	Iles	32	0.070%	9.39x
191	Rowland	32	0.070%	2.55x
192	Summers	32	0.070%	2.58x
193	Barnard	31	0.070%	2.83x
194	Coates	31	0.070%	1.88x
195	Halford	31	0.070%	9.42x
196	Leighton	31	0.070%	6.52x
197	Lusty	31	0.070%	36.46x
198	Mace	31	0.070%	7.96x
199	Pates	31	0.070%	50.24x
200	Regan	31	0.070%	6.84x