1881 census place

Upper Beeding surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Upper Beeding, Sussex 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

45 surnames are listed for Upper Beeding, Sussex, covering 232 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Groves, with 23 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Upper Beeding

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	Groves	23	3.76%	133.88x
2	Town	20	3.27%	660.07x
3	Feast	14	2.29%	1443.30x
4	Woolgar	12	1.96%	553.00x
5	Henley	10	1.64%	214.13x
6	Slaughter	9	1.47%	298.01x
7	Tweed	9	1.47%	633.80x
8	Luff	8	1.31%	203.05x
9	Payner	8	1.31%	20000.00x
10	Baring	7	1.15%	2592.59x
11	Hedger	7	1.15%	424.24x
12	Stoner	7	1.15%	330.19x
13	Elms	6	0.980%	257.51x
14	Fenner	6	0.980%	231.66x
15	Patching	6	0.980%	468.75x
16	Sanford	6	0.980%	526.32x
17	Woolger	6	0.980%	1333.33x
18	Gumbrell	5	0.820%	1219.51x
19	Newnham	5	0.820%	191.57x
20	Winton	5	0.820%	218.34x
21	Bear	4	0.650%	246.91x
22	Botting	4	0.650%	174.67x
23	Fossett	4	0.650%	1081.08x
24	Lelliott	4	0.650%	740.74x
25	Lish	4	0.650%	3333.33x
26	Witten	4	0.650%	1428.57x
27	Goatcher	3	0.490%	1000.00x
28	Novis	3	0.490%	750.00x
29	Wheatland	3	0.490%	566.04x
30	Caplin	2	0.330%	294.12x
31	Macro	2	0.330%	526.32x
32	Puckey	2	0.330%	338.98x
33	Puttick	2	0.330%	165.29x
34	Backer	1	0.160%	285.71x
35	Bloxam	1	0.160%	188.68x
36	Cosstick	1	0.160%	1111.11x
37	Donnison	1	0.160%	119.05x
38	Dowdell	1	0.160%	204.08x
39	Dunstall	1	0.160%	270.27x
40	Dunstone	1	0.160%	135.14x
41	Gumbrill	1	0.160%	454.55x
42	Harnden	1	0.160%	204.08x
43	Ockenden	1	0.160%	125.00x
44	Soal	1	0.160%	666.67x
45	Stening	1	0.160%	714.29x