1881 census place

Plumstead surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Plumstead, Kent 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

1,721 surnames are listed for Plumstead, Kent, covering 14,774 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Baker, with 169 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Plumstead

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	Baker	169	0.510%	2.32x
2	White	169	0.510%	1.58x
3	Wright	159	0.480%	1.49x
4	Webb	144	0.430%	3.20x
5	Allen	135	0.410%	2.15x
6	Cook	116	0.350%	1.76x
7	Clarke	114	0.340%	1.69x
8	King	111	0.330%	1.53x
9	Knight	93	0.280%	2.27x
10	Mills	91	0.270%	2.11x
11	Russell	87	0.260%	2.15x
12	Adams	86	0.260%	1.76x
13	Cox	86	0.260%	1.71x
14	Ellis	80	0.240%	1.66x
15	Fletcher	80	0.240%	2.11x
16	Stevens	74	0.220%	2.13x
17	Chapman	73	0.220%	1.55x
18	Kemp	73	0.220%	3.96x
19	Palmer	68	0.200%	1.74x
20	Page	65	0.200%	2.45x
21	Broughton	64	0.190%	10.33x
22	Frost	64	0.190%	3.43x
23	Brooks	63	0.190%	1.94x
24	West	56	0.170%	1.75x
25	Jacobs	55	0.170%	6.91x
26	Newman	55	0.170%	2.23x
27	Reynolds	54	0.160%	1.88x
28	Wells	54	0.160%	1.95x
29	Elliott	53	0.160%	1.88x
30	Arnold	51	0.150%	2.85x
31	Porter	51	0.150%	2.05x
32	Lane	47	0.140%	2.05x
33	Saunders	46	0.140%	1.51x
34	Warren	46	0.140%	2.07x
35	Willis	46	0.140%	2.60x
36	Hawkins	44	0.130%	1.83x
37	May	44	0.130%	2.08x
38	Rose	44	0.130%	1.79x
39	Bayne	43	0.130%	35.36x
40	Hammond	43	0.130%	2.27x
41	Miles	43	0.130%	2.19x
42	Nicholls	42	0.130%	2.42x
43	Fuller	41	0.120%	3.05x
44	Lawrence	41	0.120%	1.90x
45	Randall	40	0.120%	3.84x
46	Reeves	40	0.120%	2.94x
47	Smart	40	0.120%	2.64x
48	Tucker	40	0.120%	2.18x
49	Waller	40	0.120%	4.78x
50	Hills	39	0.120%	4.24x
51	Archer	38	0.110%	2.77x
52	Forster	38	0.110%	3.49x
53	Horton	38	0.110%	3.08x
54	Weeks	38	0.110%	5.34x
55	Gosling	36	0.110%	6.92x
56	Norman	36	0.110%	2.34x
57	Wheeler	36	0.110%	1.79x
58	Hutton	35	0.110%	3.53x
59	Sargent	35	0.110%	6.84x
60	Savage	35	0.110%	2.74x
61	Perkins	34	0.100%	2.28x
62	Wilkins	34	0.100%	2.32x
63	Pickering	33	0.100%	2.75x
64	Vaughan	33	0.100%	2.91x
65	Wren	33	0.100%	9.17x
66	Austin	32	0.100%	1.97x
67	Farr	32	0.100%	6.49x
68	French	32	0.100%	1.97x
69	Keeble	32	0.100%	14.04x
70	Tomkins	32	0.100%	9.29x
71	Dennis	31	0.090%	3.15x
72	Simmons	30	0.090%	2.21x
73	Welsh	30	0.090%	2.28x
74	Farlie	29	0.090%	362.95x
75	Garrett	29	0.090%	3.84x
76	Hicks	29	0.090%	2.09x
77	Woodley	29	0.090%	9.79x
78	Chamberlain	28	0.080%	3.10x
79	Cherry	28	0.080%	8.23x
80	Low	28	0.080%	3.98x
81	Mansfield	28	0.080%	4.49x
82	Needham	28	0.080%	3.96x
83	Thorne	28	0.080%	4.00x
84	Bowden	27	0.080%	2.82x
85	Coe	27	0.080%	5.00x
86	Cowing	27	0.080%	102.27x
87	Jenner	27	0.080%	6.84x
88	Lovejoy	27	0.080%	37.04x
89	Coombes	26	0.080%	7.32x
90	Hussey	26	0.080%	7.76x
91	Storey	26	0.080%	3.08x
92	Ambrose	25	0.080%	8.54x
93	Cavey	25	0.080%	102.42x
94	Goldsmith	25	0.080%	4.85x
95	Kimber	25	0.080%	7.90x
96	Rowley	25	0.080%	2.86x
97	Foreman	24	0.070%	5.53x
98	Grubb	24	0.070%	11.67x
99	Janes	24	0.070%	11.24x
100	Tanner	24	0.070%	3.22x