Top surnames from the 1881 census in Ewart, Northumberland

Ewart is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Northumberland

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
LYALL1521.73913,191.49
BURNS811.5942172.79
COLLINS68.695760.61
HARDY57.2464121.07
DUNCAN45.797184.75
HUTCHINSON45.7971102.04
SMITH34.34783.08
JOHNSTON34.347853.86
BRUCE22.898661.92
PAUL22.8986115.61
CUTHBERT11.4493101.01
MAURICE11.44931,250.00
ROBSON11.449322.03
DIAMOND11.4493312.50
THOMPSON11.44934.84
LEO11.44933,333.33

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
LEO0.07693333.3333
LYALL0.07693191.4894
MAURICE0.07691250.0000
DIAMOND0.0769312.5000
BURNS0.0769172.7862
HARDY0.0769121.0654
PAUL0.0769115.6069
HUTCHINSON0.0769102.0408
CUTHBERT0.0769101.0101
DUNCAN0.076984.7458
BRUCE0.076961.9195
COLLINS0.076960.6061
JOHNSTON0.076953.8600
ROBSON0.076922.0264
THOMPSON0.07694.8379
SMITH0.07693.0794

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 69 people called LEO in Ewart 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 3333.3333 in Ewart means that 3333.3333% of the people in Ewart on census day were called LEO.

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

All the surnames recorded in Ewart in 1881

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

BRUCE (2)  BURNS (8)  COLLINS (6)  CUTHBERT (1)  DIAMOND (1)  DUNCAN (4)  GREEF (1)  HARDY (5)  HUTCHINSON (4)  JOHNSTON (3)  LEO (1)  LYALL (15)  MEHORE (1)  MIDDLEMUS (6)  MAURICE (1)  MUDDIMORE (1)  PAUL (2)  ROBSON (1)  SMITH (3)  THOMPSON (1)  WOTHE (2)