1881 census place

Great Yarmouth surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk 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

1,734 surnames are listed for Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, covering 25,770 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 769 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Great Yarmouth

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	Smith	769	2.07%	1.46x
2	Brown	400	1.08%	1.63x
3	Wright	384	1.03%	3.22x
4	Johnson	239	0.640%	1.91x
5	King	229	0.620%	2.82x
6	Thompson	223	0.600%	2.00x
7	George	187	0.500%	8.56x
8	Green	169	0.450%	1.61x
9	Clarke	158	0.420%	2.10x
10	Palmer	156	0.420%	3.56x
11	Watson	154	0.410%	1.78x
12	Barber	152	0.410%	6.79x
13	Chapman	151	0.410%	2.86x
14	Howard	151	0.410%	4.14x
15	Moore	144	0.390%	1.94x
16	Page	142	0.380%	4.77x
17	Carter	134	0.360%	2.15x
18	Read	131	0.350%	5.46x
19	Durrant	129	0.350%	22.15x
20	Balls	125	0.340%	26.21x
21	Baker	123	0.330%	1.51x
22	Bowles	120	0.320%	19.72x
23	Gibbs	118	0.320%	6.46x
24	Sutton	112	0.300%	4.73x
25	Symonds	112	0.300%	24.98x
26	Howes	110	0.300%	16.91x
27	Knights	108	0.290%	33.13x
28	Riches	108	0.290%	25.39x
29	Harvey	104	0.280%	2.62x
30	Parker	103	0.280%	1.46x
31	Holmes	100	0.270%	2.21x
32	Mills	96	0.260%	1.99x
33	Hunt	94	0.250%	1.90x
34	Miller	94	0.250%	1.41x
35	Sharman	93	0.250%	18.15x
36	Hubbard	91	0.240%	10.06x
37	Blyth	87	0.230%	14.83x
38	Fox	86	0.230%	2.49x
39	Collins	82	0.220%	1.54x
40	Layton	81	0.220%	27.20x
41	Cole	80	0.220%	2.36x
42	Moss	79	0.210%	3.44x
43	Turrell	79	0.210%	70.26x
44	Beckett	77	0.210%	10.38x
45	Newman	77	0.210%	2.78x
46	Shreeve	75	0.200%	104.63x
47	Nichols	74	0.200%	6.10x
48	Porter	74	0.200%	2.65x
49	Watts	74	0.200%	2.37x
50	Wells	74	0.200%	2.39x
51	Burton	73	0.200%	2.30x
52	Harbord	73	0.200%	169.81x
53	Barnes	72	0.190%	1.61x
54	Browne	71	0.190%	10.42x
55	Lark	71	0.190%	87.38x
56	Mann	71	0.190%	3.62x
57	Stone	71	0.190%	2.64x
58	Bacon	70	0.190%	7.49x
59	Curtis	70	0.190%	3.32x
60	Dye	70	0.190%	28.36x
61	Fuller	69	0.190%	4.58x
62	Brooks	68	0.180%	1.87x
63	Haylett	68	0.180%	103.66x
64	Norton	68	0.180%	5.50x
65	Long	67	0.180%	2.78x
66	Bristow	66	0.180%	13.11x
67	Hewett	66	0.180%	15.25x
68	Howlett	66	0.180%	13.23x
69	Westgate	66	0.180%	104.58x
70	Ives	65	0.170%	14.91x
71	Carr	64	0.170%	2.38x
72	Lamb	64	0.170%	3.26x
73	Hastings	63	0.170%	13.30x
74	French	62	0.170%	3.41x
75	Woods	62	0.170%	2.64x
76	Godfrey	61	0.160%	5.53x
77	Leggett	61	0.160%	20.86x
78	Waters	61	0.160%	4.08x
79	Grimmer	60	0.160%	125.44x
80	Bunn	59	0.160%	16.27x
81	Jay	59	0.160%	18.14x
82	Kerrison	59	0.160%	68.04x
83	Amis	58	0.160%	123.83x
84	Church	58	0.160%	7.14x
85	Flaxman	58	0.160%	88.41x
86	Lawson	58	0.160%	2.64x
87	Simmons	58	0.160%	3.82x
88	Crane	57	0.150%	7.26x
89	Nicholson	57	0.150%	2.16x
90	Folkes	56	0.150%	104.83x
91	Hodds	56	0.150%	226.54x
92	Norman	55	0.150%	3.19x
93	Reeve	55	0.150%	6.32x
94	Rudd	55	0.150%	9.37x
95	Barrett	54	0.150%	2.16x
96	Boulton	54	0.150%	8.05x
97	Crisp	54	0.150%	10.44x
98	Bartram	53	0.140%	28.77x
99	Duffield	53	0.140%	16.42x
100	Gedge	53	0.140%	72.80x