1881 census place

Wellingborough surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire 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

650 surnames are listed for Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, covering 6,254 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Allen, with 119 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Wellingborough

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	Allen	119	0.860%	4.56x
2	Bailey	89	0.640%	4.28x
3	Clayson	89	0.640%	300.07x
4	Knight	89	0.640%	5.23x
5	Underwood	89	0.640%	23.87x
6	Goodman	81	0.590%	20.09x
7	Watts	78	0.560%	6.73x
8	Gent	65	0.470%	54.80x
9	Plowman	65	0.470%	91.91x
10	Beeby	63	0.460%	134.53x
11	Sharman	63	0.460%	33.11x
12	Wooding	56	0.410%	93.02x
13	Rice	55	0.400%	12.82x
14	Marriott	53	0.380%	17.13x
15	Goosey	52	0.380%	425.53x
16	Rixon	52	0.380%	114.54x
17	Abbott	51	0.370%	8.37x
18	Sharp	50	0.360%	4.34x
19	Perkins	49	0.350%	7.88x
20	Blunt	48	0.350%	43.01x
21	Noble	48	0.350%	8.37x
22	Barron	47	0.340%	21.97x
23	Bird	47	0.340%	4.45x
24	Randall	47	0.340%	10.86x
25	Brawn	46	0.330%	184.00x
26	Freeman	46	0.330%	5.21x
27	Howe	45	0.330%	8.29x
28	Dunkley	44	0.320%	40.01x
29	Short	43	0.310%	7.97x
30	Henson	41	0.300%	25.31x
31	Orton	41	0.300%	31.58x
32	Bryant	40	0.290%	6.78x
33	Tomkins	38	0.280%	26.54x
34	Cobley	37	0.270%	73.18x
35	Lovell	37	0.270%	12.80x
36	Church	35	0.250%	11.61x
37	Bayes	33	0.240%	80.10x
38	Drage	33	0.240%	61.82x
39	Hornsey	32	0.230%	105.58x
40	Keller	31	0.220%	159.63x
41	Murdin	31	0.220%	392.90x
42	Loasby	30	0.220%	239.04x
43	Youle	30	0.220%	180.18x
44	Blott	29	0.210%	182.16x
45	Denton	29	0.210%	11.42x
46	Hobbs	29	0.210%	5.76x
47	Turnell	28	0.200%	212.28x
48	Horn	26	0.190%	8.28x
49	Busby	25	0.180%	17.18x
50	Pell	25	0.180%	32.24x
51	Pendered	25	0.180%	936.33x
52	Coombs	24	0.170%	10.28x
53	Maycock	24	0.170%	37.48x
54	Chamberlain	23	0.170%	6.12x
55	Tyler	23	0.170%	5.64x
56	York	23	0.170%	12.60x
57	Beale	22	0.160%	12.55x
58	Dickens	22	0.160%	15.22x
59	Sears	22	0.160%	25.33x
60	Tomlin	22	0.160%	17.81x
61	Woolston	22	0.160%	92.05x
62	Earl	21	0.150%	11.62x
63	Lilley	21	0.150%	10.98x
64	March	21	0.150%	14.11x
65	Nutt	21	0.150%	21.04x
66	Pettitt	21	0.150%	28.41x
67	Shortland	21	0.150%	60.21x
68	Patrick	20	0.140%	7.27x
69	Tompkins	20	0.140%	16.77x
70	Walden	20	0.140%	19.77x
71	Campion	19	0.140%	19.63x
72	Cheney	19	0.140%	44.77x
73	Cleaver	19	0.140%	16.22x
74	Copson	19	0.140%	57.04x
75	Downing	19	0.140%	7.91x
76	Dulley	19	0.140%	392.56x
77	Loakes	19	0.140%	316.67x
78	Pettit	19	0.140%	17.39x
79	Spriggs	19	0.140%	27.68x
80	Tite	19	0.140%	67.52x
81	Craddock	18	0.130%	15.49x
82	Dickins	18	0.130%	35.44x
83	Hollis	18	0.130%	9.41x
84	Horne	18	0.130%	5.99x
85	Hull	18	0.130%	6.23x
86	Jeffs	18	0.130%	16.64x
87	Litchfield	18	0.130%	31.77x
88	Neville	18	0.130%	10.96x
89	Osborn	18	0.130%	6.26x
90	Botterill	17	0.120%	45.55x
91	Brice	17	0.120%	14.91x
92	Capell	17	0.120%	82.09x
93	Cobb	17	0.120%	8.65x
94	Harley	17	0.120%	9.55x
95	Humphries	17	0.120%	5.46x
96	Murden	17	0.120%	72.25x
97	Ashby	16	0.120%	6.90x
98	Berrill	16	0.120%	86.72x
99	Dainty	16	0.120%	41.98x
100	Ekins	16	0.120%	68.14x