Top surnames from the 1881 census in Welbeck, Nottinghamshire

Welbeck is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Nottinghamshire

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
SMITH79.72226.89
WOODWARD45.5556112.68
HANCOCK34.166791.46
POWELL34.166733.41
LOWE34.166755.56
ELLIS34.166728.68
THOMPSON22.77789.27
BRADLEY22.777834.60
BROWNE22.7778151.52
BEST11.388951.55
LEVICK11.38891,000.00
ASHTON11.388928.33
ROBERTS11.38893.69
COX11.38899.17
BROWN11.38892.11
WHITE11.38894.32
BERNARD11.3889333.33
THOMAS11.38893.37
HURRELL11.3889232.56
ROPER11.388966.67
RICHARDSON11.38898.16
COLLINS11.38899.68
PEARCE11.388915.13
WEBB11.388910.25
LEWIS11.38895.28
BEALE11.3889109.89
TAYLOR11.38892.17
HOLDEN11.388925.38
ROLFE11.3889107.53
DALTON11.388960.61
RADFORD11.388972.99
WOODGATE11.3889294.12
OTTER11.3889555.56

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
LEVICK0.07721000.0000
OTTER0.0772555.5556
BERNARD0.0772333.3333
WOODGATE0.0772294.1176
HURRELL0.0772232.5581
BROWNE0.0772151.5152
WOODWARD0.0772112.6761
BEALE0.0772109.8901
ROLFE0.0772107.5269
HANCOCK0.077291.4634
RADFORD0.077272.9927
ROPER0.077266.6667
DALTON0.077260.6061
LOWE0.077255.5556
BEST0.077251.5464
BRADLEY0.077234.6021
POWELL0.077233.4076
ELLIS0.077228.6807
ASHTON0.077228.3286
HOLDEN0.077225.3807
PEARCE0.077215.1286
WEBB0.077210.2459
COLLINS0.07729.6805
THOMPSON0.07729.2721
COX0.07729.1659
RICHARDSON0.07728.1566
SMITH0.07726.8857
LEWIS0.07725.2826
WHITE0.07724.3215
ROBERTS0.07723.6914
THOMAS0.07723.3659
TAYLOR0.07722.1720
BROWN0.07722.1070

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 72 people called LEVICK in Welbeck 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 1000.0000 in Welbeck means that 1000.0000% of the people in Welbeck on census day were called LEVICK.

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

All the surnames recorded in Welbeck in 1881

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

ASHTON (1)  BERNARD (1)  BEALE (1)  BENTINCK (2)  BEST (1)  BRADLEY (2)  BROWNE (2)  BROWN (1)  COLLINS (1)  COX (1)  DALTON (1)  ALLETSON (6)  ELLIS (3)  HANCOCK (3)  HOLDEN (1)  HURRELL (1)  LENTHALL (7)  LEVICK (1)  LEWIS (1)  LOWE (3)  MC CALLUM (1)  MC INNES (1)  OTTER (1)  PEARCE (1)  POWELL (3)  RADFORD (1)  RICHARDSON (1)  ROBERTS (1)  ROLFE (1)  ROPER (1)  SMITH (7)  TAYLOR (1)  THOMAS (1)  THOMPSON (2)  WARGAIT (1)  WEBB (1)  WHITE (1)  WOODGATE (1)  WOODWARD (4)  WHAITES (1)