1881 census place

Gillingham surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Gillingham, Dorset 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

162 surnames are listed for Gillingham, Dorset, covering 1,697 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Gray, with 82 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Gillingham

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	Gray	82	2.49%	17.43x
2	Read	77	2.34%	36.25x
3	Bealing	71	2.15%	3302.33x
4	Coward	68	2.06%	180.04x
5	Stone	63	1.91%	26.45x
6	Bowles	60	1.82%	111.32x
7	Hayter	45	1.37%	185.03x
8	Miles	40	1.21%	20.58x
9	Lush	36	1.09%	272.31x
10	Wadman	35	1.06%	1000.00x
11	Light	32	0.970%	105.26x
12	Flower	27	0.820%	83.90x
13	Herridge	27	0.820%	290.64x
14	Bridle	25	0.760%	175.32x
15	Hull	25	0.760%	36.31x
16	Lydford	25	0.760%	2212.39x
17	Mead	23	0.700%	29.94x
18	Shute	23	0.700%	173.98x
19	Down	22	0.670%	55.60x
20	Toogood	22	0.670%	143.98x
21	Jukes	21	0.640%	105.79x
22	Collis	20	0.610%	58.72x
23	Card	19	0.580%	98.34x
24	Coombs	18	0.550%	32.31x
25	Luffman	18	0.550%	494.51x
26	Hiscock	17	0.520%	70.22x
27	Dowding	16	0.490%	113.64x
28	Hatch	16	0.490%	56.50x
29	Sanger	16	0.490%	182.86x
30	Churchill	14	0.420%	35.81x
31	Coombes	14	0.420%	39.74x
32	Honeyfield	14	0.420%	1794.87x
33	Knapton	14	0.420%	146.14x
34	Lilly	14	0.420%	69.79x
35	Weare	14	0.420%	244.33x
36	Alford	13	0.390%	46.33x
37	Butt	13	0.390%	30.59x
38	Hann	13	0.390%	86.38x
39	Hillyer	13	0.390%	136.99x
40	Hoskins	13	0.390%	40.45x
41	Ridout	13	0.390%	111.02x
42	Fricker	12	0.360%	109.69x
43	Rideout	12	0.360%	255.86x
44	Staddon	12	0.360%	163.04x
45	Topp	12	0.360%	159.36x
46	Godwin	11	0.330%	25.80x
47	Hayden	11	0.330%	42.80x
48	Bracher	10	0.300%	210.97x
49	Curnow	10	0.300%	88.26x
50	Doddrell	10	0.300%	970.87x
51	Doggrell	10	0.300%	980.39x
52	Meatyard	10	0.300%	432.90x
53	Voss	10	0.300%	124.22x
54	Coke	9	0.270%	214.80x
55	Hedditch	9	0.270%	1250.00x
56	Jaber	9	0.270%	6923.08x
57	Maidment	9	0.270%	49.53x
58	Pinhorn	9	0.270%	576.92x
59	Scammell	9	0.270%	101.12x
60	Thick	9	0.270%	195.65x
61	Cockram	8	0.240%	71.68x
62	Dover	8	0.240%	53.91x
63	Extance	8	0.240%	1739.13x
64	Forward	8	0.240%	86.67x
65	Hatcher	8	0.240%	41.37x
66	How	8	0.240%	37.19x
67	Lear	8	0.240%	41.58x
68	Vowles	8	0.240%	50.54x
69	Whatley	8	0.240%	62.79x
70	Biffen	7	0.210%	333.33x
71	Foote	7	0.210%	55.34x
72	Greening	7	0.210%	38.21x
73	Leatherdale	7	0.210%	370.37x
74	Lodder	7	0.210%	263.16x
75	Mullings	7	0.210%	227.27x
76	Myall	7	0.210%	169.49x
77	Parham	7	0.210%	140.56x
78	Samson	7	0.210%	29.75x
79	Westover	7	0.210%	397.73x
80	Bristol	6	0.180%	243.90x
81	Cannings	6	0.180%	115.61x
82	Dewey	6	0.180%	43.07x
83	Furmedge	6	0.180%	1034.48x
84	Mayled	6	0.180%	1176.47x
85	Pippin	6	0.180%	491.80x
86	Samways	6	0.180%	62.76x
87	Sprackling	6	0.180%	402.68x
88	Treasure	6	0.180%	126.05x
89	Barritt	5	0.150%	58.07x
90	Bastable	5	0.150%	78.13x
91	Chislett	5	0.150%	137.36x
92	Drewitt	5	0.150%	85.32x
93	Foyle	5	0.150%	76.80x
94	Haskett	5	0.150%	235.85x
95	Hellier	5	0.150%	38.85x
96	Perratt	5	0.150%	793.65x
97	Ridgley	5	0.150%	120.77x
98	Stacy	5	0.150%	52.14x
99	Woolbridge	5	0.150%	666.67x
100	Fishlock	4	0.120%	81.14x