1881 census place

Leicester St Margaret surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Leicester St Margaret, Leicestershire 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

3,041 surnames are listed for Leicester St Margaret, Leicestershire, covering 62,377 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 1,572 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Leicester St Margaret

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	1,572	1.99%	1.41x
2	Johnson	614	0.780%	2.31x
3	Taylor	598	0.760%	1.18x
4	Brown	591	0.750%	1.14x
5	Ward	503	0.640%	2.92x
6	Clarke	495	0.630%	3.09x
7	Cooper	428	0.540%	2.23x
8	Green	409	0.520%	1.84x
9	Wright	401	0.510%	1.58x
10	Moore	386	0.490%	2.44x
11	Allen	379	0.480%	2.54x
12	Hill	343	0.430%	1.71x
13	Cox	338	0.430%	2.82x
14	Jackson	318	0.400%	1.44x
15	Martin	309	0.390%	1.59x
16	Robinson	287	0.360%	1.14x
17	White	287	0.360%	1.13x
18	King	285	0.360%	1.66x
19	Wells	283	0.360%	4.31x
20	Walker	277	0.350%	1.05x
21	Mason	273	0.350%	2.57x
22	Palmer	257	0.330%	2.76x
23	Simpson	252	0.320%	1.82x
24	Hall	249	0.320%	1.07x
25	Wilson	241	0.310%	0.66x
26	Clark	240	0.300%	1.01x
27	Hunt	239	0.300%	2.28x
28	Weston	236	0.300%	7.33x
29	Bailey	226	0.290%	1.90x
30	Garner	226	0.290%	9.05x
31	Knight	225	0.280%	2.31x
32	Parker	216	0.270%	1.44x
33	Warner	211	0.270%	7.33x
34	Wood	211	0.270%	0.84x
35	Lee	209	0.260%	1.62x
36	Chapman	205	0.260%	1.83x
37	Carter	204	0.260%	1.54x
38	Grant	200	0.250%	2.55x
39	Ball	199	0.250%	3.05x
40	Gamble	193	0.240%	17.07x
41	Harris	189	0.240%	0.94x
42	Bennett	188	0.240%	1.45x
43	Spencer	185	0.230%	2.57x
44	Turner	184	0.230%	0.84x
45	Gilbert	183	0.230%	4.07x
46	Harrison	181	0.230%	1.03x
47	Morris	178	0.230%	1.01x
48	Foster	176	0.220%	1.67x
49	Goodman	176	0.220%	7.64x
50	Orton	174	0.220%	23.44x
51	Deacon	173	0.220%	12.89x
52	Potter	166	0.210%	3.24x
53	Preston	166	0.210%	4.21x
54	Payne	160	0.200%	2.25x
55	Scott	160	0.200%	0.80x
56	Riley	158	0.200%	2.53x
57	Burton	157	0.200%	2.33x
58	Holmes	156	0.200%	1.62x
59	Shaw	154	0.200%	1.06x
60	Newton	153	0.190%	2.53x
61	Burdett	150	0.190%	26.90x
62	Elliott	148	0.190%	2.21x
63	Goddard	144	0.180%	4.53x
64	West	143	0.180%	1.88x
65	Coleman	142	0.180%	3.61x
66	Atkins	140	0.180%	4.73x
67	Marshall	140	0.180%	1.06x
68	Bell	139	0.180%	0.94x
69	Wilkinson	139	0.180%	1.15x
70	Stevens	138	0.170%	1.67x
71	Bates	137	0.170%	2.73x
72	Underwood	135	0.170%	6.33x
73	Watts	135	0.170%	2.04x
74	Baker	133	0.170%	0.77x
75	Sharpe	132	0.170%	5.67x
76	Cook	131	0.170%	0.83x
77	Chamberlain	130	0.160%	6.05x
78	Webster	130	0.160%	1.89x
79	Adcock	129	0.160%	16.54x
80	Perkins	129	0.160%	3.63x
81	Hurst	126	0.160%	4.47x
82	Pratt	126	0.160%	2.78x
83	Fox	125	0.160%	1.70x
84	Freer	125	0.160%	28.65x
85	Richards	125	0.160%	1.05x
86	Sharp	125	0.160%	1.90x
87	Ellis	124	0.160%	1.08x
88	Adams	123	0.160%	1.06x
89	Hallam	123	0.160%	8.35x
90	Page	119	0.150%	1.88x
91	Burrows	116	0.150%	3.36x
92	Herbert	114	0.140%	3.86x
93	Norton	114	0.140%	4.34x
94	Warren	114	0.140%	2.16x
95	Brewin	113	0.140%	39.74x
96	Holland	113	0.140%	2.01x
97	Smart	112	0.140%	3.11x
98	Williamson	112	0.140%	1.58x
99	Hubbard	111	0.140%	5.78x
100	Timson	111	0.140%	45.11x