1881 census place

Fovant surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Fovant, Wiltshire 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

34 surnames are listed for Fovant, Wiltshire, covering 340 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Read, with 41 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Fovant

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	Read	41	7.32%	113.57x
2	Goodfellow	29	5.18%	585.86x
3	Coombs	28	5.00%	295.67x
4	Lever	26	4.64%	514.85x
5	Stacey	22	3.93%	175.02x
6	Hardiman	21	3.75%	1272.73x
7	Sanger	19	3.39%	1275.17x
8	Foyle	13	2.32%	1171.17x
9	Strong	13	2.32%	155.50x
10	Simper	12	2.14%	1967.21x
11	Morey	9	1.61%	489.13x
12	Raymond	9	1.61%	278.64x
13	Witt	9	1.61%	403.59x
14	Shergold	8	1.43%	575.54x
15	Goodridge	7	1.25%	374.33x
16	Perrett	7	1.25%	250.00x
17	Viney	7	1.25%	330.19x
18	Yeats	7	1.25%	451.61x
19	Bracher	6	1.07%	740.74x
20	Cowdry	6	1.07%	1090.91x
21	Burrough	5	0.890%	413.22x
22	Durrington	5	0.890%	5555.56x
23	Furnell	4	0.710%	416.67x
24	Oborn	4	0.710%	1428.57x
25	Targett	4	0.710%	366.97x
26	Gosney	3	0.540%	285.71x
27	Thick	3	0.540%	384.62x
28	Fussell	2	0.360%	190.48x
29	Futcher	2	0.360%	303.03x
30	Matkin	2	0.360%	625.00x
31	Mouland	2	0.360%	769.23x
32	Musselwhite	2	0.360%	222.22x
33	Yeatman	2	0.360%	238.10x
34	Uphill	1	0.180%	188.68x