1881 census place

Swindon surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Swindon, Wiltshire 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

1,032 surnames are listed for Swindon, Wiltshire, covering 8,899 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Webb, with 107 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Swindon

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	Webb	107	0.530%	3.94x
2	Adams	103	0.510%	3.49x
3	Cook	103	0.510%	2.59x
4	Hunt	96	0.480%	3.61x
5	Edmonds	89	0.440%	23.24x
6	Fox	79	0.390%	4.25x
7	Matthews	70	0.350%	4.00x
8	Day	69	0.340%	3.66x
9	Stone	62	0.310%	4.28x
10	Long	61	0.300%	4.69x
11	Bunce	60	0.300%	40.19x
12	Bishop	59	0.290%	4.21x
13	Tarrant	53	0.260%	37.49x
14	Watts	53	0.260%	3.15x
15	Reynolds	52	0.260%	3.00x
16	Newman	50	0.250%	3.36x
17	Spackman	50	0.250%	85.19x
18	Lawrence	49	0.240%	3.77x
19	Page	49	0.240%	3.06x
20	Hopkins	48	0.240%	3.98x
21	Deacon	47	0.230%	13.81x
22	Howell	46	0.230%	5.45x
23	Reeves	45	0.220%	5.48x
24	Eatwell	44	0.220%	164.79x
25	Barrett	43	0.210%	3.19x
26	Hayward	43	0.210%	5.03x
27	Little	43	0.210%	4.54x
28	Wheeler	43	0.210%	3.55x
29	Heath	42	0.210%	4.22x
30	Franklin	41	0.200%	6.16x
31	Gibbs	40	0.200%	4.06x
32	Tanner	40	0.200%	8.90x
33	Woolford	40	0.200%	55.40x
34	Haines	39	0.190%	8.40x
35	Gleed	38	0.190%	91.15x
36	Bizley	37	0.180%	468.35x
37	Hinton	37	0.180%	13.76x
38	Willis	36	0.180%	3.38x
39	Gale	35	0.170%	5.83x
40	Wakefield	35	0.170%	9.75x
41	Avenell	33	0.160%	194.12x
42	Fry	33	0.160%	5.14x
43	Griffin	33	0.160%	3.50x
44	Llewellyn	33	0.160%	11.28x
45	Dowling	32	0.160%	14.41x
46	Garrett	32	0.160%	7.03x
47	Crook	31	0.150%	5.39x
48	Ponting	31	0.150%	52.64x
49	Rowland	31	0.150%	5.44x
50	Sawyer	31	0.150%	8.39x
51	Speck	31	0.150%	87.08x
52	Carpenter	30	0.150%	4.36x
53	Gibbons	30	0.150%	4.66x
54	Giles	30	0.150%	3.93x
55	Greenaway	30	0.150%	23.86x
56	Pickett	30	0.150%	18.63x
57	Wiltshire	30	0.150%	11.22x
58	Daniels	29	0.140%	4.61x
59	Drew	29	0.140%	5.48x
60	Kent	29	0.140%	3.43x
61	Loveday	29	0.140%	23.69x
62	New	29	0.140%	16.52x
63	Hale	28	0.140%	3.89x
64	Humphries	28	0.140%	6.20x
65	Love	27	0.130%	5.68x
66	Painter	27	0.130%	9.82x
67	Buckland	26	0.130%	12.25x
68	Iles	26	0.130%	16.83x
69	Millard	26	0.130%	7.84x
70	Simpkins	26	0.130%	28.76x
71	Chivers	25	0.120%	14.14x
72	Cull	25	0.120%	25.04x
73	Ellison	25	0.120%	5.91x
74	House	25	0.120%	9.59x
75	Laurence	25	0.120%	8.77x
76	Leonard	25	0.120%	5.75x
77	Robins	25	0.120%	5.89x
78	Selby	25	0.120%	10.45x
79	Tuck	25	0.120%	9.72x
80	Goodman	24	0.120%	4.10x
81	Hacker	24	0.120%	32.05x
82	Morse	24	0.120%	13.05x
83	Peart	24	0.120%	21.04x
84	Strange	24	0.120%	11.17x
85	Cowley	23	0.110%	6.24x
86	Gardener	23	0.110%	6.40x
87	Richens	23	0.110%	59.07x
88	Haggard	22	0.110%	124.08x
89	Hogarth	22	0.110%	16.64x
90	Knapp	22	0.110%	16.11x
91	Randell	22	0.110%	17.59x
92	Collett	21	0.100%	8.17x
93	Comley	21	0.100%	47.84x
94	Embling	21	0.100%	141.99x
95	Godwin	21	0.100%	8.10x
96	Hinder	21	0.100%	92.59x
97	Jefferies	21	0.100%	9.46x
98	Lockyer	21	0.100%	13.70x
99	Arman	20	0.100%	212.09x
100	Brain	20	0.100%	9.30x