1881 census place

Plymouth St Andrew surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Plymouth St Andrew, Devon 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

2,644 surnames are listed for Plymouth St Andrew, Devon, covering 29,971 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Williams, with 492 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Plymouth St Andrew

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	Williams	492	1.05%	1.46x
2	Hill	309	0.660%	2.59x
3	Martin	251	0.540%	2.18x
4	Harris	229	0.490%	1.92x
5	Bennett	228	0.490%	2.96x
6	Ellis	187	0.400%	2.75x
7	Cole	181	0.390%	4.24x
8	Edwards	178	0.380%	1.36x
9	White	159	0.340%	1.06x
10	Wills	153	0.330%	10.93x
11	Phillips	150	0.320%	1.79x
12	Davis	148	0.320%	1.44x
13	Palmer	145	0.310%	2.63x
14	Rogers	143	0.310%	2.35x
15	May	141	0.300%	4.73x
16	Baker	138	0.290%	1.34x
17	Pearce	136	0.290%	3.16x
18	Collins	132	0.280%	1.96x
19	Richards	126	0.270%	1.78x
20	Stephens	125	0.270%	4.81x
21	Ford	124	0.260%	2.72x
22	Harvey	120	0.260%	2.40x
23	King	120	0.260%	1.18x
24	Tucker	120	0.260%	4.63x
25	Adams	117	0.250%	1.69x
26	Elliott	114	0.240%	2.87x
27	Mitchell	114	0.240%	1.20x
28	Parsons	112	0.240%	3.15x
29	Symons	108	0.230%	16.77x
30	Down	106	0.230%	18.85x
31	Matthews	106	0.230%	2.59x
32	Hooper	105	0.220%	5.29x
33	Knight	104	0.220%	1.80x
34	Westlake	104	0.220%	30.65x
35	Dawe	102	0.220%	25.02x
36	Stevens	102	0.220%	2.09x
37	Luscombe	100	0.210%	41.73x
38	Marshall	100	0.210%	1.27x
39	Crocker	99	0.210%	15.74x
40	Rendle	99	0.210%	71.60x
41	Skinner	96	0.200%	4.04x
42	Hicks	94	0.200%	4.79x
43	Johns	93	0.200%	7.69x
44	Jenkins	92	0.200%	1.67x
45	Warren	92	0.200%	2.94x
46	Gill	90	0.190%	2.72x
47	Bowden	89	0.190%	6.58x
48	Dyer	83	0.180%	4.57x
49	Foster	83	0.180%	1.33x
50	Saunders	82	0.180%	1.91x
51	Cox	79	0.170%	1.11x
52	Andrews	78	0.170%	1.74x
53	Hodge	78	0.170%	6.61x
54	Pike	78	0.170%	5.73x
55	Steer	77	0.160%	14.08x
56	Weeks	77	0.160%	7.68x
57	Searle	76	0.160%	8.07x
58	Beer	75	0.160%	10.00x
59	Glanville	75	0.160%	38.95x
60	Willcocks	74	0.160%	38.22x
61	Hawkins	73	0.160%	2.15x
62	Brooks	72	0.150%	1.57x
63	Barrett	70	0.150%	2.23x
64	Fox	68	0.150%	1.56x
65	Nicholls	67	0.140%	2.74x
66	Reed	67	0.140%	1.96x
67	Short	67	0.140%	3.66x
68	Yeo	67	0.140%	27.16x
69	Blight	66	0.140%	31.14x
70	West	66	0.140%	1.46x
71	Roach	65	0.140%	9.42x
72	Webber	65	0.140%	4.54x
73	Collings	63	0.130%	11.30x
74	Lethbridge	63	0.130%	45.77x
75	Bishop	62	0.130%	1.89x
76	Ball	61	0.130%	1.58x
77	Curtis	60	0.130%	2.26x
78	Hannaford	60	0.130%	27.78x
79	Pengelly	60	0.130%	29.99x
80	Rundle	59	0.130%	21.10x
81	Jago	58	0.120%	32.33x
82	Burt	57	0.120%	5.12x
83	Gould	57	0.120%	3.37x
84	Pearse	57	0.120%	11.44x
85	Stanbury	57	0.120%	46.13x
86	Wyatt	57	0.120%	4.15x
87	Parkhouse	56	0.120%	40.05x
88	Watts	56	0.120%	1.43x
89	Bartlett	55	0.120%	2.68x
90	Dunn	55	0.120%	1.41x
91	Hambly	55	0.120%	36.03x
92	Lavers	55	0.120%	49.46x
93	Northey	55	0.120%	48.84x
94	Osborne	54	0.120%	2.42x
95	Snell	54	0.120%	6.09x
96	Vosper	54	0.120%	60.67x
97	Walters	54	0.120%	2.42x
98	Lillicrap	53	0.110%	127.37x
99	Oliver	53	0.110%	1.59x
100	Pope	52	0.110%	3.22x