Top surnames from the 1881 census in Little Eppleton, County Durham

Little Eppleton 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
WOOD923.684274.32
THOMPSON821.052670.30
PEARSON513.1579113.38
BATEY410.52632,666.67
NICHOLSON37.8947111.11
LISHMAN37.89473,750.00
HEDLEY12.6316256.41
FINDLEY12.63161,000.00
STEPHENSON12.631646.08
ELLIOTT12.631631.06
WAKE12.6316322.58

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
LISHMAN0.04383750.0000
BATEY0.04382666.6667
FINDLEY0.04381000.0000
WAKE0.0438322.5806
HEDLEY0.0438256.4103
PEARSON0.0438113.3787
NICHOLSON0.0438111.1111
WOOD0.043874.3187
THOMPSON0.043870.2988
STEPHENSON0.043846.0829
ELLIOTT0.043831.0559

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 38 people called LISHMAN in Little Eppleton 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 3750.0000 in Little Eppleton means that 3750.0000% of the people in Little Eppleton on census day were called LISHMAN.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called LISHMAN 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 LISHMAN 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 LISHMAN 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 LISHMAN here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.04 in Little Eppleton means that you are 0.04 times as likely to find someone with the surname of LISHMAN in Little Eppleton than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Little Eppleton in 1881

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

BATEY (4)  CRUDDASS (1)  ELLIOTT (1)  FINDLEY (1)  HEDLEY (1)  LISHMAN (3)  NICHOLSON (3)  PEARSON (5)  STEPHENSON (1)  THOMPSON (8)  WAKE (1)  WOOD (9)