Top surnames from the 1881 census in Clanaborough, Devon

Clanaborough 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
LEE911.392469.71
BECK78.8608378.38
COOPER78.860836.42
PROWSE78.86081,944.44
GARD78.86083,500.00
ROWDEN78.86083,684.21
HUTCHINGS56.3291337.84
GIBBINGS45.06333,636.36
MOORE33.797518.99
TOWNSEND33.797589.29
DAVEY11.265830.77
PYNE11.2658333.33
JARMAN11.2658133.33
MADGE11.2658400.00
CLEMENT11.2658125.00
NORTHAM11.2658714.29
HOWARD11.265812.90
WESTCOTT11.2658192.31

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
ROWDEN0.08793684.2105
GIBBINGS0.08793636.3636
GARD0.08793500.0000
PROWSE0.08791944.4444
NORTHAM0.0879714.2857
MADGE0.0879400.0000
BECK0.0879378.3784
HUTCHINGS0.0879337.8378
PYNE0.0879333.3333
WESTCOTT0.0879192.3077
JARMAN0.0879133.3333
CLEMENT0.0879125.0000
TOWNSEND0.087989.2857
LEE0.087969.7134
COOPER0.087936.4204
DAVEY0.087930.7692
MOORE0.087918.9873
HOWARD0.087912.9032

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 79 people called ROWDEN in Clanaborough 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 3684.2105 in Clanaborough means that 3684.2105% of the people in Clanaborough on census day were called ROWDEN.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called ROWDEN 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 ROWDEN 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 ROWDEN 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 ROWDEN here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.08 in Clanaborough means that you are 0.08 times as likely to find someone with the surname of ROWDEN in Clanaborough than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Clanaborough in 1881

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

BECK (7)  BREALY (3)  CLEMENT (1)  COOPER (7)  DAVEY (1)  GARD (7)  GIBBINGS (4)  HEALE (4)  HOWARD (1)  HUTCHINGS (5)  JARMAN (1)  LEE (9)  MADGE (1)  MOORE (3)  NORTHAM (1)  PROWSE (7)  PYNE (1)  ROWDEN (7)  TOWNSEND (3)  WESTCOTT (1)  WREFORD (5)