Top surnames from the 1881 census in Houghton Le Side, County Durham

Houghton Le Side is an 1881 census registration district in the county of County Durham

Registration districts were originally created for the registration of births, marriages and deaths, rather than specifically for the census. In many cases, registration districts were broadly equivalent to parishes, but not necessarily so.

Top surnames by total occurrences

Surname Total Frequency Index
CORNER109.70871,333.33
OLIVER98.7379122.45
HALL98.737929.70
SMART87.7670170.58
LENG87.76702,758.62
WILLIAMSON76.796175.84
WILSON65.825212.68
BLAND65.8252280.37
SEWELL65.8252275.23
SHAW54.854426.43
CHARLTON32.9126101.69
DAWSON21.941717.62
HOWE21.941749.51
CLARKE10.97094.79
PEARSON10.97098.36
BEST10.970935.97
JACKSON10.97093.47
HENNING10.9709666.67
ROBSON10.970914.75
HARRISON10.97094.37
RICHARDSON10.97095.70
HOPPER10.970968.03
TYSON10.970974.63

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
LENG0.101032758.6207
CORNER0.101031333.3333
HENNING0.10103666.6667
BLAND0.10103280.3738
SEWELL0.10103275.2294
SMART0.10103170.5757
OLIVER0.10103122.4490
CHARLTON0.10103101.6949
WILLIAMSON0.1010375.8397
TYSON0.1010374.6269
HOPPER0.1010368.0272
HOWE0.1010349.5050
BEST0.1010335.9712
HALL0.1010329.7030
SHAW0.1010326.4271
DAWSON0.1010317.6211
ROBSON0.1010314.7493
WILSON0.1010312.6823
PEARSON0.101038.3612
RICHARDSON0.101035.7045
CLARKE0.101034.7916
HARRISON0.101034.3745
JACKSON0.101033.4734

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 103 people called LENG in Houghton Le Side at the time of the 1881 census.

The Frequency column shows the percentage of people in this county or town with this surname. For example, a frequency of 2758.6207 in Houghton Le Side means that 2758.6207% of the people in Houghton Le Side on census day were called LENG.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called LENG in this county or town, compared with the probability of finding them anywhere in Britain as a whole. An index of 1 means that if you pick someone at random from this county or town, you have exactly the same probability of picking someone called LENG as if you picked at random from the whole of the UK. Where the index is higher than 1, then you are more likely to find someone called LENG here than if you picked from the UK as a whole, and where it's lower then you are less likely. The actual figure shows the level of probability - for example, a figure of 2 would indicate that you are twice as likely to find someone called LENG here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.10 in Houghton Le Side means that you are 0.10 times as likely to find someone with the surname of LENG in Houghton Le Side than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Houghton Le Side in 1881

(including typos, unknowns and the ones we don't have any data for!)

BEST (1)  BLAND (6)  CHARLTON (3)  CLARKE (1)  CORNER (10)  COWPERTHWAITE (1)  CUMBOR (3)  DAWSON (2)  GARGETT (1)  HALL (9)  HARRISON (1)  HENNING (1)  HOPPER (1)  HOWE (2)  JACKSON (1)  LENG (8)  OLIVER (9)  PEARSON (1)  POSKETT (1)  RICHARDSON (1)  ROBSON (1)  SIDGEWICK (6)  SEWELL (6)  SHAW (5)  SMART (8)  TYSON (1)  WILLIAMSON (7)  WILSON (6)