1881 census place

Folkestone surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Folkestone, Kent 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

1,113 surnames are listed for Folkestone, Kent, covering 8,945 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Graves, with 18 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Folkestone

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	Graves	18	0.090%	6.14x
102	Hoad	18	0.090%	25.65x
103	Parks	18	0.090%	8.95x
104	Rennie	18	0.090%	5.33x
105	Sherwood	18	0.090%	7.30x
106	Attwood	17	0.090%	8.88x
107	Cloke	17	0.090%	45.01x
108	Culver	17	0.090%	39.54x
109	Fleet	17	0.090%	13.11x
110	Mummery	17	0.090%	54.63x
111	Rigden	17	0.090%	47.03x
112	Vincett	17	0.090%	237.10x
113	Weeks	17	0.090%	4.11x
114	Willes	17	0.090%	73.98x
115	Dalby	16	0.080%	10.22x
116	Dunk	16	0.080%	25.01x
117	Elgar	16	0.080%	41.72x
118	Gosling	16	0.080%	5.29x
119	Harman	16	0.080%	5.54x
120	Hook	16	0.080%	5.59x
121	Howland	16	0.080%	24.23x
122	Kennet	16	0.080%	186.26x
123	Moat	16	0.080%	42.80x
124	Mount	16	0.080%	21.33x
125	Spickett	16	0.080%	125.79x
126	Stroud	16	0.080%	8.00x
127	Underdown	16	0.080%	41.58x
128	Woollett	16	0.080%	48.22x
129	Baldock	15	0.080%	11.09x
130	English	15	0.080%	4.13x
131	Furminger	15	0.080%	180.07x
132	Grinstead	15	0.080%	65.82x
133	Musgrave	15	0.080%	12.82x
134	Pentland	15	0.080%	64.54x
135	Spratt	15	0.080%	13.95x
136	Sumner	15	0.080%	4.79x
137	Unwin	15	0.080%	7.81x
138	Vye	15	0.080%	111.19x
139	Camburn	14	0.070%	169.49x
140	Cocks	14	0.070%	10.90x
141	Copping	14	0.070%	18.16x
142	Coughlan	14	0.070%	64.55x
143	Easton	14	0.070%	4.77x
144	Gilham	14	0.070%	24.81x
145	Goldsack	14	0.070%	55.47x
146	Gosby	14	0.070%	186.92x
147	Hams	14	0.070%	127.62x
148	Hollaway	14	0.070%	80.32x
149	Kettle	14	0.070%	8.28x
150	Medhurst	14	0.070%	18.84x
151	Penfold	14	0.070%	8.53x
152	Smithson	14	0.070%	7.55x
153	Theobald	14	0.070%	11.38x
154	Tunbridge	14	0.070%	43.90x
155	Waddell	14	0.070%	8.16x
156	Willson	14	0.070%	6.45x
157	Caister	13	0.070%	199.39x
158	Cornish	13	0.070%	4.66x
159	Funnell	13	0.070%	12.17x
160	Goldsmith	13	0.070%	4.33x
161	Jeffrey	13	0.070%	3.64x
162	Kimber	13	0.070%	7.06x
163	Laslett	13	0.070%	87.54x
164	Lilley	13	0.070%	4.86x
165	March	13	0.070%	6.24x
166	Newing	13	0.070%	43.30x
167	Nickalls	13	0.070%	191.74x
168	Reason	13	0.070%	23.07x
169	Ames	12	0.060%	9.01x
170	Boughton	12	0.060%	15.03x
171	Brisley	12	0.060%	61.76x
172	Clayson	12	0.060%	28.91x
173	Dane	12	0.060%	28.21x
174	Eastes	12	0.060%	176.99x
175	Featherstone	12	0.060%	6.90x
176	Frazer	12	0.060%	8.01x
177	Harrold	12	0.060%	13.76x
178	Impett	12	0.060%	135.75x
179	Ledger	12	0.060%	9.08x
180	Maycock	12	0.060%	13.39x
181	Paine	12	0.060%	4.51x
182	Pellatt	12	0.060%	90.70x
183	Snelling	12	0.060%	7.65x
184	Southon	12	0.060%	51.35x
185	Want	12	0.060%	30.27x
186	Ashdown	11	0.060%	10.04x
187	Brockman	11	0.060%	42.39x
188	Doughty	11	0.060%	4.47x
189	Driscoll	11	0.060%	5.11x
190	Goodchild	11	0.060%	5.85x
191	Gorringe	11	0.060%	35.50x
192	Gower	11	0.060%	5.42x
193	Gurr	11	0.060%	16.61x
194	Inman	11	0.060%	8.36x
195	Jell	11	0.060%	92.59x
196	Murton	11	0.060%	16.80x
197	Reader	11	0.060%	6.59x
198	Sage	11	0.060%	6.40x
199	Tappenden	11	0.060%	45.93x
200	Tite	11	0.060%	27.93x