1881 census place

Great Grimsby surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire 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

1,710 surnames are listed for Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, covering 14,205 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Brown, with 320 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Great Grimsby

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	Brown	320	1.08%	1.64x
2	Robinson	295	1.00%	3.12x
3	Johnson	222	0.750%	2.23x
4	Atkinson	177	0.600%	6.13x
5	Thompson	163	0.550%	1.84x
6	Wright	149	0.500%	1.57x
7	Cook	121	0.410%	2.05x
8	Ellis	115	0.390%	2.67x
9	Barker	103	0.350%	2.65x
10	Pearson	102	0.340%	2.96x
11	Chapman	100	0.340%	2.38x
12	Miller	100	0.340%	1.89x
13	King	96	0.320%	1.49x
14	Marshall	96	0.320%	1.93x
15	Dawson	94	0.320%	2.88x
16	Holmes	84	0.280%	2.33x
17	West	70	0.240%	2.45x
18	Burnett	69	0.230%	8.41x
19	Blow	65	0.220%	58.67x
20	Gooseman	65	0.220%	608.04x
21	Stamp	63	0.210%	28.90x
22	Burton	60	0.200%	2.38x
23	Rushby	60	0.200%	121.95x
24	Shepherd	60	0.200%	2.76x
25	Mumby	58	0.200%	68.20x
26	Woods	57	0.190%	3.05x
27	Blanchard	53	0.180%	21.81x
28	Kitching	52	0.180%	30.24x
29	Wells	52	0.180%	2.11x
30	Dobson	51	0.170%	3.90x
31	Lingard	51	0.170%	27.11x
32	Briggs	48	0.160%	2.98x
33	Moody	48	0.160%	6.20x
34	Norton	48	0.160%	4.87x
35	Bellamy	47	0.160%	10.87x
36	Charlton	46	0.160%	5.42x
37	Needham	45	0.150%	7.13x
38	Horton	43	0.150%	3.91x
39	Lister	43	0.150%	5.09x
40	Graves	42	0.140%	9.34x
41	Bates	41	0.140%	2.17x
42	Atkin	40	0.130%	10.10x
43	Dent	40	0.130%	7.08x
44	Wharton	40	0.130%	9.63x
45	Fawcett	39	0.130%	6.80x
46	Hodson	39	0.130%	6.36x
47	Markham	39	0.130%	11.05x
48	Croft	37	0.120%	5.28x
49	Good	36	0.120%	9.76x
50	Hewson	36	0.120%	14.88x
51	Jewitt	36	0.120%	36.26x
52	Lamming	36	0.120%	128.07x
53	Lawson	36	0.120%	2.06x
54	Borman	35	0.120%	87.74x
55	Brocklesby	35	0.120%	73.50x
56	Dennis	35	0.120%	3.99x
57	Glover	35	0.120%	2.77x
58	Hannah	35	0.120%	9.08x
59	Surfleet	35	0.120%	219.57x
60	Betts	34	0.110%	5.36x
61	Evison	34	0.110%	36.19x
62	Farmery	34	0.110%	64.20x
63	Neal	34	0.110%	3.88x
64	Chatterton	33	0.110%	19.61x
65	Kennington	33	0.110%	92.59x
66	Kitchen	33	0.110%	6.53x
67	Pawson	33	0.110%	27.85x
68	Coulbeck	32	0.110%	161.62x
69	Vickers	32	0.110%	4.20x
70	Bee	31	0.100%	18.54x
71	Bingham	31	0.100%	7.12x
72	Collinson	31	0.100%	8.91x
73	Emerson	31	0.100%	15.09x
74	Butterfield	30	0.100%	7.57x
75	Hurst	30	0.100%	2.83x
76	Sanderson	30	0.100%	2.45x
77	Borrill	29	0.100%	98.98x
78	Clarkson	29	0.100%	3.69x
79	Snell	29	0.100%	5.17x
80	Beels	28	0.090%	233.72x
81	Drayton	28	0.090%	26.86x
82	Drewry	28	0.090%	63.28x
83	Lusby	28	0.090%	84.44x
84	Nichols	28	0.090%	2.90x
85	Saunderson	28	0.090%	40.70x
86	Waller	28	0.090%	3.75x
87	Wallis	28	0.090%	2.79x
88	Allington	27	0.090%	52.35x
89	Appleby	27	0.090%	5.58x
90	Crowther	27	0.090%	3.05x
91	Davy	27	0.090%	7.39x
92	Frith	27	0.090%	9.13x
93	Grice	27	0.090%	8.83x
94	Hollingsworth	27	0.090%	13.77x
95	Leigh	27	0.090%	3.96x
96	Stout	27	0.090%	19.01x
97	Wardale	27	0.090%	116.08x
98	Blades	26	0.090%	15.45x
99	Bray	26	0.090%	2.61x
100	Goddard	26	0.090%	2.18x