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 Messenger, with 23 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
501	Messenger	23	0.030%	3.77x
502	Nye	23	0.030%	4.66x
503	Penn	23	0.030%	3.22x
504	Pullen	23	0.030%	2.21x
505	Ralph	23	0.030%	1.91x
506	Rich	23	0.030%	2.32x
507	Roadnight	23	0.030%	51.90x
508	Searle	23	0.030%	1.45x
509	Silvester	23	0.030%	3.77x
510	Stagg	23	0.030%	4.37x
511	Stroud	23	0.030%	2.81x
512	Tebbutt	23	0.030%	7.92x
513	Ashley	22	0.030%	1.66x
514	Burt	22	0.030%	1.17x
515	Clack	22	0.030%	7.00x
516	Couch	22	0.030%	4.69x
517	Coulson	22	0.030%	1.55x
518	Drew	22	0.030%	1.05x
519	Elsey	22	0.030%	9.05x
520	Gubby	22	0.030%	65.67x
521	Harland	22	0.030%	3.34x
522	Hoadley	22	0.030%	18.17x
523	Hood	22	0.030%	1.01x
524	Jenner	22	0.030%	2.34x
525	Newland	22	0.030%	4.65x
526	Packer	22	0.030%	2.64x
527	Pascall	22	0.030%	24.38x
528	Poulter	22	0.030%	3.74x
529	Stenning	22	0.030%	9.90x
530	Toms	22	0.030%	3.60x
531	Turrell	22	0.030%	9.21x
532	Wren	22	0.030%	2.57x
533	Aston	21	0.030%	1.61x
534	Clement	21	0.030%	2.64x
535	Covell	21	0.030%	16.58x
536	Emery	21	0.030%	1.22x
537	Glasscock	21	0.030%	19.13x
538	Gosling	21	0.030%	1.70x
539	Grubb	21	0.030%	4.30x
540	Ledger	21	0.030%	3.89x
541	Manser	21	0.030%	11.71x
542	Mansfield	21	0.030%	1.42x
543	Marriott	21	0.030%	1.19x
544	Monk	21	0.030%	1.27x
545	Moseley	21	0.030%	2.91x
546	Pettifer	21	0.030%	11.90x
547	Randell	21	0.030%	4.26x
548	Skeet	21	0.030%	14.01x
549	Squirrell	21	0.030%	21.00x
550	Stuart	21	0.030%	1.11x
551	Tate	21	0.030%	1.38x
552	Tomkins	21	0.030%	2.56x
553	Tuckey	21	0.030%	13.11x
554	Waite	21	0.030%	1.28x
555	Wyatt	21	0.030%	0.91x
556	Avery	20	0.030%	1.51x
557	Ballard	20	0.030%	1.69x
558	Bayley	20	0.030%	1.57x
559	Baylis	20	0.030%	2.41x
560	Bean	20	0.030%	1.96x
561	Biddle	20	0.030%	3.51x
562	Bridger	20	0.030%	3.01x
563	Brigden	20	0.030%	13.93x
564	Cramp	20	0.030%	5.75x
565	David	20	0.030%	2.43x
566	Draper	20	0.030%	1.07x
567	Finlay	20	0.030%	2.47x
568	Foreman	20	0.030%	1.94x
569	Funnell	20	0.030%	4.58x
570	German	20	0.030%	5.43x
571	Hockley	20	0.030%	4.69x
572	Marlow	20	0.030%	2.16x
573	Mayes	20	0.030%	2.63x
574	Meager	20	0.030%	18.40x
575	Mortimer	20	0.030%	1.21x
576	Paul	20	0.030%	1.01x
577	Pescud	20	0.030%	70.87x
578	Player	20	0.030%	6.58x
579	Puttick	20	0.030%	12.74x
580	Riches	20	0.030%	2.21x
581	Smithers	20	0.030%	4.68x
582	Spearpoint	20	0.030%	56.16x
583	Street	20	0.030%	1.08x
584	Stripp	20	0.030%	43.56x
585	Underwood	20	0.030%	0.94x
586	Weaver	20	0.030%	0.97x
587	Wickens	20	0.030%	4.02x
588	Woolgar	20	0.030%	7.12x
589	Bignell	19	0.020%	5.98x
590	Budgen	19	0.020%	11.52x
591	Busby	19	0.020%	2.28x
592	Chaplin	19	0.020%	1.68x
593	Chitty	19	0.020%	6.29x
594	Clay	19	0.020%	1.17x
595	Dicker	19	0.020%	6.14x
596	Drummond	19	0.020%	1.21x
597	Fagg	19	0.020%	6.12x
598	Farrow	19	0.020%	1.28x
599	Finn	19	0.020%	2.63x
600	Flowers	19	0.020%	2.97x