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1881 census place

Dorking surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Dorking, 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

539 surnames are listed for Dorking, Surrey, covering 4,304 people in the local records.

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

Most common surnames in Dorking

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.

#SurnameTotalIndex
501Rawley113.05x
502Reddick114.93x
503Redstone113.74x
504Rofe112.09x
505Roker124.27x
506Saunder112.64x
507Sea1116.28x
508Seath16.99x
509Shemeld134.48x
510Shippard184.75x
511Shippen120.20x
512Smallpiece127.25x
513Smeeth116.08x
514Smither19.41x
515Sones116.58x
516Spiner1125.00x
517Stainforth112.53x
518Stilwell17.19x
519Sugdon1104.17x
520Sutten184.75x
521Syred128.99x
522Thirlwall116.50x
523Thorns110.85x
524Thrupp118.98x
525Took17.70x
526Tottle110.37x
527Tringham123.92x
528Trodd18.73x
529Valance126.32x
530Vanderplank180.65x
531Voice17.97x
532Walthew132.36x
533Wane110.55x
534Westgate16.17x
535Westwater18.03x
536Woodridge136.50x
537Worner119.12x
538Wyeth16.86x
539Yetman140.65x