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UK surname

Egginton

In the 1881 census there were 419 people recorded with the Egginton surname, ranking it #7,703 among surnames in the records. By 2016, the modern count was 926, ranked #6,170, up from #7,703 in 1881.

The strongest historical links point to Wolverhampton, Sheffield and London parishes. In the modern distribution records, the strongest local clusters include Doncaster, Rotherham and Sandwell.

Across the surname records, the highest recorded count for Egginton is 1,005 in 2000. Compared with 1881, the name has grown by 121.0%.

1881 census count

419

Ranked #7,703

Modern count

926

2016, ranked #6,170

Peak year

2000

1,005 bearers

Map years

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1851 to 2016

Key insights

  • Egginton had 419 recorded bearers in 1881, making it the #7,703 surname in that year.
  • The latest modern count shown here is 926 in 2016, ranked #6,170.
  • Within the historical census years, the highest count was 844 in 1911.
  • The contemporary neighbourhood profile most associated with the surname is Small Town Suburbia.

Egginton surname distribution map

The map shows where the Egginton surname is concentrated in each census or modern distribution year. Darker areas mean a stronger local concentration.

Distribution map

Egginton surname density by area, 1881 census.

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Timeline

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Egginton over time

The table below tracks recorded surname counts and rank from the 19th-century census years through the modern adult-register period.

Year Period Count Rank
1851 historical 312 #7,397
1861 historical 375 #6,817
1881 historical 419 #7,703
1891 historical 514 #7,262
1901 historical 625 #6,850
1911 historical 844 #5,255
1997 modern 916 #5,893
1998 modern 990 #5,714
1999 modern 984 #5,787
2000 modern 1,005 #5,667
2001 modern 971 #5,717
2002 modern 965 #5,842
2003 modern 927 #5,946
2004 modern 915 #6,006
2005 modern 912 #5,962
2006 modern 904 #6,019
2007 modern 905 #6,061
2008 modern 906 #6,105
2009 modern 915 #6,175
2010 modern 926 #6,241
2011 modern 926 #6,190
2012 modern 917 #6,157
2013 modern 929 #6,201
2014 modern 922 #6,268
2015 modern 910 #6,282
2016 modern 926 #6,170

Geography

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Where Eggintons are most common

Historical parish links are strongest around Wolverhampton, Sheffield, London parishes, Birmingham Town: Birmingham and Birmingham Town: Aston. These are the places where the surname stands out most clearly in the older records.

The modern local-area list points to Doncaster, Rotherham, Sandwell, Stoke-on-Trent and Wyre Forest. Treat these as concentration signals, not proof that every family line began there.

Some modern areas include a three-digit suffix, such as Leeds 110. The suffix is a small-area code, so it stays in the table while the prose uses the plain place name.

Top historical parishes

Rank Parish Area
1 Wolverhampton Staffordshire
2 Sheffield Yorkshire, West Riding
3 London parishes London 2
4 Birmingham Town: Birmingham Warwickshire
5 Birmingham Town: Aston Warwickshire

Top modern areas

Rank Area District
1 Doncaster 009 Doncaster
2 Rotherham 005 Rotherham
3 Sandwell 030 Sandwell
4 Stoke-on-Trent 013 Stoke-on-Trent
5 Wyre Forest 007 Wyre Forest

Forenames

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First names often paired with Egginton

These lists show first names that appear often with the Egginton surname in historical and recent records.

Modern profile

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Neighbourhood profile for Egginton

Modern surname records can be compared with neighbourhood classifications. For Egginton, this points to the kinds of places where the surname is most concentrated today.

These neighbourhood labels describe areas, not individual people. They are useful because surnames often cluster through family history, migration, housing patterns and local work. A surname can be strongest in one type of neighbourhood even when people with that name live across the country.

The UK classification gives the national picture. The London classification is more specific to the capital, where housing, age profile, tenure and population mix can look quite different from the rest of the UK.

UK neighbourhood type

UK Output Area Classification

Supergroup

Retired Professionals

Group

Small Town Suburbia

Nationally, the Egginton surname is most associated with neighbourhoods classed as Small Town Suburbia, within Retired Professionals. This does not mean every Egginton household fits that profile, but it gives a useful signal about where the modern surname distribution is strongest.

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Group profile

This Group is predominantly comprised of married couples with no resident dependent children, living in areas characterised neither by under-occupancy nor overcrowding throughout the UK in or adjacent to small towns. White ethnic groups and affiliation with Christianity predominates. Housing tends to be predominantly semi-detached or detached and workers are employed principally in managerial and professional occupations, with semi-skilled occupations also in evidence. These areas of the Supergroup are of higher population density.

Wider pattern

Typically married but no longer with resident dependent children, these well-educated households either remain working in their managerial, professional, administrative or other skilled occupations, or are retired from them – the modal individual age is beyond normal retirement age. Underoccupied detached and semi-detached properties predominate, and unpaid care is more prevalent than reported disability. The prevalence of this Supergroup outside most urban conurbations indicates that rural lifestyles prevail, typically sustained by using two or more cars per household.

London neighbourhood type

London Output Area Classification

Supergroup

Young Families and Mainstream Employment

Group

Terraced and Semi-Detached Suburbs

Within London, Egginton is most associated with areas classed as Terraced and Semi-Detached Suburbs, part of Young Families and Mainstream Employment. This gives the surname a London-specific profile rather than forcing the capital into the same pattern as the rest of the country.

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Group profile

Mainly concentrated in suburban areas, these terraced and semi-detached developments are less overcrowded than the Supergroup average, and resident households are more likely to own two or more cars. There are fewer residents aged 25-44, and a larger share of residents employed in administrative and secretarial occupations. Residents are more likely to have been born in the UK, less likely to have been born in the EU or Africa, and much less likely to self-identify as Bangladeshi.

Wider London pattern

Many families in these neighbourhoods have young children. Housing is principally in the social rented sector, in terraced or semi-detached units. While over-all residential densities are low, overcrowding is also prevalent locally. Residents are drawn from a range of ethnic minorities, with many identifying as Black and above average numbers born in Africa. Numbers identifying as of Chinese, Indian or White ethnicity are below average. Levels of proficiency in English are below average. Levels of separation or divorce and incidence of disability are both above average. Education is typically limited to Level 1, 2, or apprenticeship qualifications. Few residents work in professional or managerial occupations but the employment structure is otherwise diverse: it includes skilled trades, caring, leisure and other service occupations, sales and customer service occupations, construction, and work as process, plant, and machine operatives.

Healthy neighbourhoods

Access to healthy assets and hazards

Egginton is most concentrated in decile 5 for access to healthy assets and hazards. This places the surname near the middle of the scale.

Lower deciles point towards weaker access to healthy assets or stronger exposure to local hazards. Higher deciles point towards stronger access and fewer hazards.

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Lower access Higher access

Neighbourhood deprivation

Index of Multiple Deprivation

Egginton falls in decile 2 for neighbourhood deprivation. This puts the surname towards the more deprived end of the index.

Decile 1 represents the more deprived end of the scale. Decile 10 represents the less deprived end.

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More deprived Less deprived

Broadband speed

Fixed broadband download speed

The modern neighbourhood pattern for Egginton is most associated with a typical fixed broadband download band of 50-60 mbit/s.

The scale below places that band in context, from slower local download bands through to faster ones.

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Area snapshot

Ethnic group estimate

Most common ethnic group estimate
White - British

This describes the area pattern most associated with Egginton, not the ethnicity of every person with the surname.

1881 census detail

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Egginton families in the 1881 census

These tables use 1881 census entries for people recorded with the Egginton surname. Use the location tables for concentration, then the name and occupation tables for the people behind the surname.

Top counties

Total is the county count. Frequency and index adjust for local population size, so they are better concentration signals. Warwickshire leads with 131 Eggintons recorded in 1881 and an index of 12.89x.

County Total Index
Warwickshire 131 12.89x
Staffordshire 86 6.32x
Yorkshire 61 1.53x
Middlesex 25 0.62x
Surrey 23 1.17x
Worcestershire 20 3.80x
Cheshire 12 1.35x
Leicestershire 9 2.01x
Lancashire 7 0.15x
Denbighshire 6 3.94x
Durham 6 0.50x
Gloucestershire 6 0.76x
Nottinghamshire 6 1.10x
Oxfordshire 4 1.61x
Derbyshire 3 0.48x
Hampshire 2 0.24x
Hertfordshire 2 0.72x
Kent 2 0.15x
Devon 1 0.12x
Herefordshire 1 0.61x

Top districts and towns

Districts give a more local view than counties. Total shows raw records, while frequency and index show local concentration. Birmingham in Warwickshire leads with 82 Eggintons recorded in 1881 and an index of 24.22x.

Place Total Index
Birmingham 82 24.22x
Aston 47 16.80x
Wolverhampton 37 35.39x
Kingswinford 13 26.33x
Nether Hallam 10 18.52x
Sheffield 9 7.08x
Tarvin 9 1551.72x
Clerkenwell London 8 8.41x
Ibstock 8 246.15x
Kimberworth 8 36.10x
Mitcham 8 64.46x
Linthorpe 7 29.39x
Ecclesall Bierlow 6 7.39x
Handsworth 6 17.90x
Merton 6 174.42x
Nottingham St Mary 6 4.27x
Rawmarsh 6 42.55x
Rotherham 6 26.65x
Ruabon 6 28.68x
Shoreditch London 6 3.44x
Tudhoe 6 57.20x
Walton On Thames 6 66.59x
West Bromwich 6 7.71x
Brightside Bierlow 5 6.39x
Dudley 5 7.82x
Norton In Moors 5 69.44x
Willenhall 5 19.63x
Bristol St George 4 10.95x
Heaton Norris 4 14.70x
Sedgley 4 7.92x
Stourbridge 4 29.54x
Walsall Foreign 4 5.69x
Bradford 3 3.10x
Brinnington 3 36.10x
Bromley London 3 3.38x
Harborne 3 6.88x
Lambeth 3 0.85x
Neithrop 3 35.89x
Winshill 3 74.63x
Wollaston 3 89.82x
Aughton 2 42.28x
Cirencester 2 18.69x
Edgbaston 2 6.35x
Islington London 2 0.51x
Kings Norton 2 4.24x
Oldbury 2 7.73x
St Albans 2 35.15x
St George In East London 2 5.28x
St Pancras London 2 0.62x
Worcester Blockhouse 2 69.20x
Aldridge 1 38.31x
Burton Upon Trent 1 3.14x
Catherington 1 54.95x
Charlton Next Woolwich 1 6.98x
Dodderhill In Liberties 1 136.99x
Eaton Bishop 1 161.29x
Fulbrook 1 208.33x
Kensington London 1 0.45x
Kirkdale 1 1.24x
Mexborough 1 12.63x
Plymouth St Andrew 1 1.55x
Portsmouth 1 5.26x
St Martin In Fields 1 4.15x
Stoke Upon Trent 1 0.69x
Swithland 1 294.12x
Woolwich 1 1.97x
Yardley 1 7.43x

Top female names

These are the female first names most often recorded with the Egginton surname in 1881. Names are not merged, so initials, variant spellings and transcription quirks can appear as separate rows.

Name Count
Sarah 22
Mary 21
Elizabeth 14
Ann 11
Eliza 10
Jane 8
Alice 7
Emma 7
Hannah 6
Louisa 6
Ada 5
Emily 5
Annie 4
Ellen 4
Fanny 4
Florence 4
Agnes 3
Clara 3
Rose 3
Amy 2
Beatrice 2
Edith 2
Harriett 2
Lily 2
Lucy 2
Maria 2
Amelia 1
Anni 1
Betsy 1
Carolin 1
Charlotte 1
Dora 1
Eleanor 1
Elisabeth 1
Elizh. 1
Eunice 1
Eva 1
Georgina 1
Gertrude 1
Harriet 1
Isabell 1
Isabella 1
Janet 1
Jessie 1
Kate 1
Lavinia 1
Livener 1
Lizzie 1
Lydia 1
Winfred 1

Top male names

These are the male first names most often recorded with the Egginton surname in 1881. Names are not merged, so initials, variant spellings and transcription quirks can appear as separate rows.

Name Count
William 32
John 19
Joseph 15
Alfred 13
James 13
Thomas 13
Henry 12
George 9
Charles 8
Albert 6
Edward 6
Robert 6
Arthur 5
Samuel 5
Walter 5
Edwin 3
Richard 3
Chas. 2
Elisha 2
Harry 2
Archiebald 1
Bertram 1
Chas.Henry 1
Daniel 1
David 1
Edgar 1
Emmanuel 1
Enoch 1
Francis 1
Fred 1
Frederick 1
Fredrick 1
Gardiner 1
Horace 1
Horatio 1
Hy. 1
J.S. 1
Jno. 1
Job 1
Jonah 1
Louis 1
Lucy 1
Mark 1
Matthew 1
Maurice 1
Moses 1
Sidney 1
Stewart 1
Tho.Willm. 1
Thos. 1

FAQ

Egginton surname: questions and answers

How common was the Egginton surname in 1881?

In 1881, 419 people were recorded with the Egginton surname. That placed it at #7,703 in the surname rankings for that year.

How common is the Egginton surname today?

The latest modern count shown here is 926 in 2016. That gives Egginton a modern rank of #6,170.

What does the Egginton map show?

The map shows local surname concentration for the selected year. Darker areas have a stronger concentration of Egginton bearers relative to the surrounding population.

What records is this surname page based on?

The historical counts come from census surname records. The modern counts and neighbourhood summaries come from later surname distribution records. Counts are recorded bearers in those records, not a live estimate of everyone with the name today.