1881 census place

Reading St Giles surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Reading St Giles, Berkshire 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

1,207 surnames are listed for Reading St Giles, Berkshire, covering 10,419 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is White, with 165 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Reading St Giles

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	White	165	0.770%	2.39x
2	Allen	116	0.540%	2.85x
3	Wheeler	116	0.540%	8.93x
4	Cox	91	0.420%	2.79x
5	Stevens	88	0.410%	3.92x
6	Webb	84	0.390%	2.88x
7	May	79	0.370%	5.77x
8	Butler	76	0.350%	3.62x
9	Lawrence	76	0.350%	5.44x
10	Wicks	75	0.350%	24.77x
11	Hawkins	69	0.320%	4.43x
12	Day	68	0.320%	3.36x
13	Goddard	67	0.310%	7.74x
14	Chandler	66	0.310%	9.55x
15	Dyer	65	0.300%	7.80x
16	Lovegrove	64	0.300%	51.02x
17	West	63	0.290%	3.04x
18	Palmer	60	0.280%	2.37x
19	Franklin	59	0.270%	8.26x
20	Pocock	56	0.260%	24.71x
21	Rose	55	0.260%	3.45x
22	North	54	0.250%	7.57x
23	Reeves	54	0.250%	6.13x
24	Hopkins	53	0.250%	4.09x
25	Heath	50	0.230%	4.68x
26	Tanner	47	0.220%	9.74x
27	Miles	46	0.210%	3.62x
28	Parsons	46	0.210%	2.81x
29	Willmott	46	0.210%	34.11x
30	Haines	45	0.210%	9.03x
31	Watts	45	0.210%	2.49x
32	Wise	45	0.210%	10.04x
33	Prior	44	0.200%	8.84x
34	Shepherd	44	0.200%	2.79x
35	Belcher	43	0.200%	16.59x
36	Austin	42	0.200%	3.99x
37	Holloway	39	0.180%	5.92x
38	Jordan	39	0.180%	4.10x
39	George	38	0.180%	3.01x
40	Huggins	38	0.180%	20.99x
41	Legg	37	0.170%	10.42x
42	Tull	37	0.170%	71.44x
43	Herbert	36	0.170%	4.48x
44	Pike	36	0.170%	5.76x
45	Wiggins	36	0.170%	15.51x
46	Willis	36	0.170%	3.15x
47	Withers	36	0.170%	10.20x
48	Atkins	35	0.160%	4.34x
49	Bolton	34	0.160%	3.67x
50	Sawyer	34	0.160%	8.57x
51	Sheppard	34	0.160%	4.56x
52	Woodley	34	0.160%	17.73x
53	Aldridge	33	0.150%	7.91x
54	Ayres	33	0.150%	11.05x
55	Griffin	33	0.150%	3.26x
56	Simmonds	33	0.150%	5.74x
57	Crook	32	0.150%	5.18x
58	Neville	32	0.150%	12.52x
59	Higgs	31	0.140%	7.90x
60	Fry	30	0.140%	4.35x
61	Gibbons	30	0.140%	4.34x
62	Leaver	30	0.140%	21.63x
63	Munday	30	0.140%	11.92x
64	Winter	30	0.140%	3.93x
65	Bloomfield	29	0.130%	10.61x
66	Maskell	29	0.130%	19.17x
67	Randall	29	0.130%	4.30x
68	Seymour	29	0.130%	6.60x
69	Wickens	29	0.130%	21.40x
70	Gale	28	0.130%	4.34x
71	Shackleford	28	0.130%	225.26x
72	Beasley	27	0.130%	11.58x
73	Dell	27	0.130%	21.40x
74	Goff	27	0.130%	19.42x
75	Salter	27	0.130%	5.49x
76	Swain	27	0.130%	6.51x
77	Webber	27	0.130%	4.11x
78	Farmer	26	0.120%	3.87x
79	Giles	26	0.120%	3.17x
80	Hayward	26	0.120%	2.83x
81	Lovejoy	26	0.120%	55.08x
82	Povey	26	0.120%	19.96x
83	Viner	26	0.120%	37.20x
84	Goodall	25	0.120%	5.43x
85	Packer	25	0.120%	11.03x
86	Weller	25	0.120%	8.08x
87	Allum	24	0.110%	29.38x
88	Greenaway	24	0.110%	17.78x
89	Lock	24	0.110%	3.92x
90	Slade	24	0.110%	5.59x
91	Spicer	24	0.110%	8.29x
92	Allaway	23	0.110%	59.74x
93	Dear	23	0.110%	14.45x
94	Farley	23	0.110%	8.51x
95	Plumridge	23	0.110%	38.57x
96	Simonds	23	0.110%	41.31x
97	Stroud	23	0.110%	10.34x
98	Bowler	22	0.100%	8.38x
99	Bowsher	22	0.100%	96.92x
100	Kimber	22	0.100%	10.74x