Top surnames from the 1881 census in Wood Dalling, Norfolk

Wood Dalling is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Norfolk

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
EKE316.40503,563.22
COTTRELL183.7190417.63
RANSOME173.51241,111.11
RICHES142.8926253.16
BARNES122.479320.60
JONAS122.47931,445.78
DACK122.4793805.37
HOLMES91.859515.27
CLARK91.85956.19
STOKES91.859544.03
KELTY81.65296,153.85
DIXON81.652915.09
HUTCHINS81.6529163.60
DANN81.6529262.30
BURTON81.652919.40
STRIKE81.65291,000.00
HOWARD81.652916.84
JOYCE81.652967.28
BREESE71.4463542.64
WATERS61.239730.85
PLANE61.23971,071.43
WARNER61.239733.99
BARRETT61.239718.46
JONES51.03310.91
ROBERTS51.03312.75
PEGG51.0331105.26
KEELER51.0331349.65
WILSON51.03312.25
WARD51.03314.73
BRADFORD51.033152.97
LONG40.826412.74
STEARMAN40.82641,052.63
BALLS40.826464.52
BREWSTER40.826485.29
NEALE30.619826.11
MIDDLETON30.619811.81
AUSTIN30.619812.68
MOOR30.619844.25
DAWSON30.61985.62
COWELL20.413228.86
TANN20.4132273.97
BELL20.41322.20
PRIOR20.413217.86
LARGE20.413240.08
ENGLISH20.413221.98
MOUL20.4132769.23
MARES20.4132625.00
LUPTON20.413257.14
GRAPES20.4132714.29
CLAXTON20.413265.15

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
KELTY0.484846153.8462
EKE0.484843563.2184
JONAS0.484841445.7831
RANSOME0.484841111.1111
PLANE0.484841071.4286
STEARMAN0.484841052.6316
STRIKE0.484841000.0000
DACK0.48484805.3691
MOUL0.48484769.2308
GRAPES0.48484714.2857
MARES0.48484625.0000
BREESE0.48484542.6357
COTTRELL0.48484417.6334
KEELER0.48484349.6503
TANN0.48484273.9726
DANN0.48484262.2951
RICHES0.48484253.1646
GAFF0.48484217.3913
GRAND0.48484192.3077
SHORTEN0.48484185.1852
HUTCHINS0.48484163.5992
PEGG0.48484105.2632
KIDDLE0.4848495.2381
BREWSTER0.4848485.2878
JOYCE0.4848467.2834
CLAXTON0.4848465.1466
BALLS0.4848464.5161
LUPTON0.4848457.1429
BRADFORD0.4848452.9661
MOOR0.4848444.2478
STOKES0.4848444.0313
FULCHER0.4848440.8163
LARGE0.4848440.0802
WARNER0.4848433.9943
WATERS0.4848430.8483
COWELL0.4848428.8600
RUDD0.4848426.2123
NEALE0.4848426.1097
LYNN0.4848423.6967
ENGLISH0.4848421.9780
DIX0.4848420.9205
BARNES0.4848420.5973
MACK0.4848420.5339
BURTON0.4848419.4033
BARRETT0.4848418.4559
PRIOR0.4848417.8571
IRELAND0.4848417.7936
HOWARD0.4848416.8421
HOLMES0.4848415.2698
DIXON0.4848415.0858

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 484 people called KELTY in Wood Dalling 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 6153.8462 in Wood Dalling means that 6153.8462% of the people in Wood Dalling on census day were called KELTY.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called KELTY 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 KELTY 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 KELTY 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 KELTY here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.48 in Wood Dalling means that you are 0.48 times as likely to find someone with the surname of KELTY in Wood Dalling than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Wood Dalling in 1881

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

ALLEN (1)  ANNERSON (5)  AUSTIN (3)  BALLS (4)  BARNES (12)  BARRETT (6)  BATTERBEE (4)  BELL (2)  BLOMFIELD (1)  BREESE (7)  BRADFORD (5)  BRAY (1)  BREWSTER (4)  BURTON (8)  BUSSENS (5)  CLARK (9)  CLAXTON (2)  COTTRELL (18)  COWELL (2)  COXFORD (5)  DACK (12)  DANN (8)  DAWSON (3)  DIX (1)  DIXON (8)  EKE (31)  FITT (19)  FROSTICK (11)  FULCHER (1)  GAFF (1)  GEORGE (1)  GRAND (1)  GRAPES (2)  HALES (1)  HARDIMENT (6)  HOLMES (9)  HOWARD (8)  HUTCHINS (8)  ENGLISH (2)  IRELAND (2)  JONAS (12)  JONES (5)  JOYCE (8)  KELTY (8)  KIDDLE (1)  LARGE (2)  LONG (4)  LUPTON (2)  LYNN (1)  MANTHORPE (6)  MARGESTON (2)  MARGESTONE (3)  MACK (1)  KEELER (5)  MIDDLETON (3)  MOOR (3)  MOUL (2)  MARES (2)  NEALE (3)  NOBES (6)  PAYNE (2)  PEGG (5)  PLANE (6)  POTTER (1)  PRIDDEN (1)  PRIOR (2)  PUMBELL (2)  PUMFREY (2)  RANSOME (17)  READWIN (1)  RICHES (14)  RISBOROUGH (15)  RISBORUGH (1)  ROBERTS (5)  RUDD (2)  SASBY (1)  SHORTEN (1)  SPRINGALL (13)  STOKES (9)  STRIKE (8)  STEARMAN (4)  TANN (2)  VOUTT (27)  WARD (5)  WARNER (6)  WATERS (6)  WILSON (5)  WORLLEDGE (3)