1881 census place

Croydon surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Croydon, Surrey 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

4,753 surnames are listed for Croydon, Surrey, covering 56,975 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 1,078 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Croydon

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	1,078	1.36%	0.97x
2	Brown	445	0.560%	0.85x
3	Wood	442	0.560%	1.76x
4	White	399	0.510%	1.57x
5	Taylor	395	0.500%	0.78x
6	Martin	393	0.500%	2.02x
7	Cooper	338	0.430%	1.76x
8	King	311	0.390%	1.81x
9	Johnson	297	0.380%	1.12x
10	Baker	288	0.360%	1.66x
11	Knight	258	0.330%	2.65x
12	Bailey	247	0.310%	2.08x
13	Harris	246	0.310%	1.23x
14	Turner	231	0.290%	1.05x
15	Bennett	226	0.290%	1.74x
16	Robinson	221	0.280%	0.88x
17	Wright	216	0.270%	0.85x
18	Green	213	0.270%	0.96x
19	Davis	207	0.260%	1.19x
20	Mitchell	206	0.260%	1.29x
21	Clark	204	0.260%	0.86x
22	Collins	202	0.260%	1.78x
23	Moore	201	0.250%	1.27x
24	Carter	188	0.240%	1.42x
25	Hall	181	0.230%	0.78x
26	Chapman	179	0.230%	1.60x
27	Parker	177	0.220%	1.18x
28	Wells	172	0.220%	2.62x
29	Day	171	0.220%	2.30x
30	Young	171	0.220%	1.01x
31	Stevens	170	0.220%	2.06x
32	Edwards	168	0.210%	0.76x
33	Page	168	0.210%	2.66x
34	Potter	166	0.210%	3.24x
35	Richardson	166	0.210%	1.23x
36	Mills	163	0.210%	1.59x
37	Reed	157	0.200%	2.72x
38	Webb	156	0.200%	1.46x
39	West	156	0.200%	2.05x
40	Fuller	155	0.200%	4.85x
41	Clarke	152	0.190%	0.95x
42	Palmer	152	0.190%	1.63x
43	Ward	152	0.190%	0.88x
44	Payne	151	0.190%	2.12x
45	Adams	148	0.190%	1.27x
46	Hill	147	0.190%	0.73x
47	Streeter	140	0.180%	42.45x
48	Miller	138	0.170%	0.98x
49	Allen	137	0.170%	0.92x
50	Cox	137	0.170%	1.14x
51	Scott	137	0.170%	0.69x
52	Phillips	136	0.170%	0.96x
53	Barker	134	0.170%	1.30x
54	Rogers	134	0.170%	1.31x
55	Russell	131	0.170%	1.36x
56	Brooker	128	0.160%	13.43x
57	Simmons	128	0.160%	3.97x
58	Ellis	126	0.160%	1.10x
59	Wheeler	124	0.160%	2.60x
60	Cook	123	0.160%	0.78x
61	Price	123	0.160%	0.89x
62	Foster	122	0.150%	1.15x
63	Barnes	121	0.150%	1.27x
64	Ford	121	0.150%	1.57x
65	Skinner	121	0.150%	3.02x
66	Gibbs	120	0.150%	3.09x
67	Mason	117	0.150%	1.10x
68	Cole	116	0.150%	1.61x
69	Saunders	116	0.150%	1.60x
70	Harding	115	0.150%	2.01x
71	Langridge	115	0.150%	24.76x
72	Wallis	115	0.150%	4.30x
73	Hunt	111	0.140%	1.06x
74	Harvey	110	0.140%	1.30x
75	Pearce	108	0.140%	1.49x
76	Marshall	105	0.130%	0.79x
77	Andrews	103	0.130%	1.36x
78	Lee	99	0.130%	0.77x
79	Hart	98	0.120%	1.45x
80	Burton	97	0.120%	1.44x
81	Newman	97	0.120%	1.65x
82	Field	96	0.120%	2.44x
83	Lloyd	96	0.120%	1.04x
84	Rose	96	0.120%	1.64x
85	Dean	95	0.120%	1.73x
86	Reynolds	94	0.120%	1.37x
87	Howard	93	0.120%	1.20x
88	Lane	90	0.110%	1.65x
89	Rhodes	90	0.110%	2.45x
90	Gray	89	0.110%	0.79x
91	Harman	89	0.110%	7.54x
92	Arnold	87	0.110%	2.04x
93	Dennis	87	0.110%	3.72x
94	Bashford	86	0.110%	32.69x
95	Frost	86	0.110%	1.94x
96	Lawrence	86	0.110%	1.68x
97	Matthews	86	0.110%	1.25x
98	Penfold	86	0.110%	12.82x
99	Davey	85	0.110%	2.62x
100	French	85	0.110%	2.20x