Top surnames from the 1881 census in Stockleigh English, Devon

Stockleigh English is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Devon

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
HAMMETT710.76923,181.82
ROBERTS69.230824.54
RANDALL69.2308294.12
HEPPER69.230812,000.00
BICKLEY57.69231,851.85
LAKE57.6923347.22
PITMAN57.6923847.46
THOMAS34.615411.19
DREW11.538558.14
MANNING11.538548.31
DOWTY11.53855,000.00
GILL11.538521.74
CROOKE11.53851,111.11

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
HEPPER0.076512000.0000
DOWTY0.07655000.0000
HAMMETT0.07653181.8182
BICKLEY0.07651851.8519
CROOKE0.07651111.1111
PITMAN0.0765847.4576
LAKE0.0765347.2222
RANDALL0.0765294.1176
DREW0.076558.1395
MANNING0.076548.3092
ROBERTS0.076524.5399
GILL0.076521.7391
THOMAS0.076511.1857

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 65 people called HEPPER in Stockleigh English 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 12000.0000 in Stockleigh English means that 12000.0000% of the people in Stockleigh English on census day were called HEPPER.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called HEPPER 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 HEPPER 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 HEPPER 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 HEPPER here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.07 in Stockleigh English means that you are 0.07 times as likely to find someone with the surname of HEPPER in Stockleigh English than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Stockleigh English in 1881

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

BICKLEY (5)  CROOKE (1)  DOWTY (1)  DREW (1)  GILL (1)  HAMMETT (7)  HEPPER (6)  LAKE (5)  LANKSHEAR (5)  MANNING (1)  PITMAN (5)  RANDALL (6)  ROBERTS (6)  SHARLAND (9)  THOMAS (3)  UDALL (3)