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 | Index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loasby | 143 | 1417.24x |
| 2 | Newman | 82 | 9.92x |
| 3 | Bellamy | 78 | 48.14x |
| 4 | Toseland | 75 | 714.29x |
| 5 | Chapman | 74 | 4.69x |
| 6 | Hawthorn | 73 | 113.44x |
| 7 | Starmer | 68 | 387.46x |
| 8 | Mobbs | 67 | 160.48x |
| 9 | Panther | 66 | 592.99x |
| 10 | Tingle | 66 | 186.23x |
| 11 | Coe | 64 | 35.45x |
| 12 | Essam | 60 | 679.50x |
| 13 | Patrick | 60 | 27.10x |
| 14 | Payne | 60 | 6.00x |
| 15 | Spence | 59 | 16.05x |
| 16 | Sumpter | 58 | 330.48x |
| 17 | Wallis | 57 | 15.14x |
| 18 | Marlow | 48 | 36.78x |
| 19 | Abbott | 46 | 9.39x |
| 20 | Hales | 45 | 28.21x |
| 21 | Barratt | 42 | 18.63x |
| 22 | Willis | 42 | 7.11x |
| 23 | York | 42 | 28.59x |
| 24 | Freeman | 41 | 5.78x |
| 25 | Goode | 40 | 27.81x |
| 26 | Neal | 40 | 12.16x |
| 27 | Tilley | 40 | 27.41x |
| 28 | Coleman | 39 | 7.04x |
| 29 | Pell | 39 | 62.52x |
| 30 | Shatford | 39 | 691.49x |
| 31 | Mutton | 37 | 89.83x |
| 32 | Roughton | 37 | 195.87x |
| 33 | Farey | 35 | 252.89x |
| 34 | Driver | 34 | 16.51x |
| 35 | Goodman | 34 | 10.48x |
| 36 | Sharman | 34 | 22.21x |
| 37 | Groom | 33 | 21.19x |
| 38 | Issitt | 32 | 611.85x |
| 39 | Panter | 32 | 84.88x |
| 40 | Dorr | 31 | 506.54x |
| 41 | Ginns | 31 | 259.41x |
| 42 | Haddon | 31 | 41.66x |
| 43 | Perkins | 31 | 6.20x |
| 44 | Coulson | 30 | 15.05x |
| 45 | Goosey | 30 | 305.19x |
| 46 | Wrigley | 30 | 21.34x |
| 47 | Buckby | 29 | 278.04x |
| 48 | Hanger | 29 | 258.70x |
| 49 | Yeomans | 29 | 31.65x |
| 50 | Chater | 27 | 79.18x |
| 51 | Henson | 27 | 20.72x |
| 52 | Benford | 26 | 173.91x |
| 53 | Kilsby | 26 | 228.87x |
| 54 | Parrish | 26 | 66.91x |
| 55 | Underwood | 26 | 8.67x |
| 56 | Wills | 26 | 7.83x |
| 57 | Woolston | 26 | 135.28x |
| 58 | Ingram | 25 | 7.37x |
| 59 | Loake | 25 | 570.78x |
| 60 | Northern | 25 | 332.01x |
| 61 | Oakley | 25 | 10.62x |
| 62 | Whitwell | 25 | 76.03x |
| 63 | Draper | 24 | 9.17x |
| 64 | Elmore | 24 | 152.19x |
| 65 | Heighton | 24 | 249.74x |
| 66 | Jenkinson | 23 | 11.82x |
| 67 | Chamberlain | 22 | 7.28x |
| 68 | East | 22 | 12.73x |
| 69 | Lilley | 22 | 14.30x |
| 70 | Towell | 22 | 69.58x |
| 71 | Farrar | 21 | 14.17x |
| 72 | Shrive | 21 | 365.22x |
| 73 | Ashley | 20 | 10.75x |
| 74 | Cattell | 20 | 64.70x |
| 75 | Kendall | 20 | 8.36x |
| 76 | Lewin | 20 | 22.32x |
| 77 | Mitton | 20 | 61.44x |
| 78 | Cheney | 19 | 55.65x |
| 79 | Jeffery | 19 | 7.87x |
| 80 | Jessop | 19 | 14.40x |
| 81 | Bland | 18 | 7.81x |
| 82 | Bright | 18 | 8.01x |
| 83 | Dexter | 18 | 22.05x |
| 84 | Sturgess | 18 | 28.23x |
| 85 | Abrahams | 17 | 20.16x |
| 86 | Blount | 17 | 44.61x |
| 87 | Buswell | 17 | 52.12x |
| 88 | Dickens | 17 | 14.62x |
| 89 | Garley | 17 | 291.60x |
| 90 | Lenton | 17 | 30.62x |
| 91 | Spriggs | 17 | 30.79x |
| 92 | Slow | 16 | 112.28x |
| 93 | Bloomfield | 15 | 10.62x |
| 94 | Bosworth | 15 | 22.91x |
| 95 | Foulds | 15 | 19.95x |
| 96 | Furniss | 15 | 30.46x |
| 97 | Goodfellow | 15 | 15.27x |
| 98 | Goodliffe | 15 | 104.75x |
| 99 | Lillyman | 15 | 226.93x |
| 100 | Maddocks | 15 | 22.10x |