1881 census place

Kettering surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Kettering, Northamptonshire 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

462 surnames are listed for Kettering, Northamptonshire, covering 5,329 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Loasby, with 143 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Kettering

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	Loasby	143	1.29%	1417.24x
2	Newman	82	0.740%	9.92x
3	Bellamy	78	0.700%	48.14x
4	Toseland	75	0.670%	714.29x
5	Chapman	74	0.670%	4.69x
6	Hawthorn	73	0.660%	113.44x
7	Starmer	68	0.610%	387.46x
8	Mobbs	67	0.600%	160.48x
9	Panther	66	0.590%	592.99x
10	Tingle	66	0.590%	186.23x
11	Coe	64	0.580%	35.45x
12	Essam	60	0.540%	679.50x
13	Patrick	60	0.540%	27.10x
14	Payne	60	0.540%	6.00x
15	Spence	59	0.530%	16.05x
16	Sumpter	58	0.520%	330.48x
17	Wallis	57	0.510%	15.14x
18	Marlow	48	0.430%	36.78x
19	Abbott	46	0.410%	9.39x
20	Hales	45	0.400%	28.21x
21	Barratt	42	0.380%	18.63x
22	Willis	42	0.380%	7.11x
23	York	42	0.380%	28.59x
24	Freeman	41	0.370%	5.78x
25	Goode	40	0.360%	27.81x
26	Neal	40	0.360%	12.16x
27	Tilley	40	0.360%	27.41x
28	Coleman	39	0.350%	7.04x
29	Pell	39	0.350%	62.52x
30	Shatford	39	0.350%	691.49x
31	Mutton	37	0.330%	89.83x
32	Roughton	37	0.330%	195.87x
33	Farey	35	0.310%	252.89x
34	Driver	34	0.310%	16.51x
35	Goodman	34	0.310%	10.48x
36	Sharman	34	0.310%	22.21x
37	Groom	33	0.300%	21.19x
38	Issitt	32	0.290%	611.85x
39	Panter	32	0.290%	84.88x
40	Dorr	31	0.280%	506.54x
41	Ginns	31	0.280%	259.41x
42	Haddon	31	0.280%	41.66x
43	Perkins	31	0.280%	6.20x
44	Coulson	30	0.270%	15.05x
45	Goosey	30	0.270%	305.19x
46	Wrigley	30	0.270%	21.34x
47	Buckby	29	0.260%	278.04x
48	Hanger	29	0.260%	258.70x
49	Yeomans	29	0.260%	31.65x
50	Chater	27	0.240%	79.18x
51	Henson	27	0.240%	20.72x
52	Benford	26	0.230%	173.91x
53	Kilsby	26	0.230%	228.87x
54	Parrish	26	0.230%	66.91x
55	Underwood	26	0.230%	8.67x
56	Wills	26	0.230%	7.83x
57	Woolston	26	0.230%	135.28x
58	Ingram	25	0.220%	7.37x
59	Loake	25	0.220%	570.78x
60	Northern	25	0.220%	332.01x
61	Oakley	25	0.220%	10.62x
62	Whitwell	25	0.220%	76.03x
63	Draper	24	0.220%	9.17x
64	Elmore	24	0.220%	152.19x
65	Heighton	24	0.220%	249.74x
66	Jenkinson	23	0.210%	11.82x
67	Chamberlain	22	0.200%	7.28x
68	East	22	0.200%	12.73x
69	Lilley	22	0.200%	14.30x
70	Towell	22	0.200%	69.58x
71	Farrar	21	0.190%	14.17x
72	Shrive	21	0.190%	365.22x
73	Ashley	20	0.180%	10.75x
74	Cattell	20	0.180%	64.70x
75	Kendall	20	0.180%	8.36x
76	Lewin	20	0.180%	22.32x
77	Mitton	20	0.180%	61.44x
78	Cheney	19	0.170%	55.65x
79	Jeffery	19	0.170%	7.87x
80	Jessop	19	0.170%	14.40x
81	Bland	18	0.160%	7.81x
82	Bright	18	0.160%	8.01x
83	Dexter	18	0.160%	22.05x
84	Sturgess	18	0.160%	28.23x
85	Abrahams	17	0.150%	20.16x
86	Blount	17	0.150%	44.61x
87	Buswell	17	0.150%	52.12x
88	Dickens	17	0.150%	14.62x
89	Garley	17	0.150%	291.60x
90	Lenton	17	0.150%	30.62x
91	Spriggs	17	0.150%	30.79x
92	Slow	16	0.140%	112.28x
93	Bloomfield	15	0.140%	10.62x
94	Bosworth	15	0.140%	22.91x
95	Foulds	15	0.140%	19.95x
96	Furniss	15	0.140%	30.46x
97	Goodfellow	15	0.140%	15.27x
98	Goodliffe	15	0.140%	104.75x
99	Lillyman	15	0.140%	226.93x
100	Maddocks	15	0.140%	22.10x