Top surnames from the 1881 census in Little Gransden, Cambridgeshire

Little Gransden is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Cambridgeshire

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
HOLMES218.642070.97
HOUSDEN208.23053,703.70
WRIGHT197.818924.37
SMITH176.99594.95
EAST135.3498343.92
HUGHES93.703713.22
STAINES93.7037671.64
MERRIL83.292216,000.00
ELWOOD72.88071,555.56
SKINNER72.880756.77
SAFFORD62.46918,571.43
DEAN62.469135.57
CLARK62.46918.21
CROSS62.469135.89
BULL62.469158.42
DIXIE52.05763,846.15
PEEL52.0576114.68
HUCKLE52.0576649.35
COOK52.057610.36
COX41.646110.86
WILSON41.64613.58
JONES41.64611.45
BARTELL31.23463,750.00
KING31.23465.66
BELL31.23466.57
SADDLER31.2346410.96
WAKEFIELD31.234668.97
ROOK20.8230120.48
BATES20.823012.94
HARE20.823053.33
WILTSHIRE20.823061.73
GRAY20.82305.77
BEARD10.411515.63
CLARKE10.41152.03
BRIGHT10.411520.37
COOPER10.41151.69
WHITE10.41151.28
BATCHELOR10.411524.27
NEWBY10.411541.15

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
MERRIL0.2424316000.0000
SAFFORD0.242438571.4286
DIXIE0.242433846.1538
BARTELL0.242433750.0000
HOUSDEN0.242433703.7037
ELWOOD0.242431555.5556
STAINES0.24243671.6418
HUCKLE0.24243649.3506
SADDLER0.24243410.9589
EAST0.24243343.9153
ROOK0.24243120.4819
PEEL0.24243114.6789
HOLMES0.2424370.9699
WAKEFIELD0.2424368.9655
WILTSHIRE0.2424361.7284
BULL0.2424358.4226
SKINNER0.2424356.7721
HARE0.2424353.3333
NEWBY0.2424341.1523
CROSS0.2424335.8852
DEAN0.2424335.5661
WRIGHT0.2424324.3715
BATCHELOR0.2424324.2718
BRIGHT0.2424320.3666
BEARD0.2424315.6250
HUGHES0.2424313.2178
BATES0.2424312.9366
COX0.2424310.8607
COOK0.2424310.3584
CLARK0.242438.2147
BELL0.242436.5703
GRAY0.242435.7654
KING0.242435.6647
SMITH0.242434.9548
WILSON0.242433.5842
CLARKE0.242432.0309
COOPER0.242431.6918
JONES0.242431.4534
WHITE0.242431.2802

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 243 people called MERRIL in Little Gransden 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 16000.0000 in Little Gransden means that 16000.0000% of the people in Little Gransden on census day were called MERRIL.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called MERRIL 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 MERRIL 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 MERRIL 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 MERRIL here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.24 in Little Gransden means that you are 0.24 times as likely to find someone with the surname of MERRIL in Little Gransden than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Little Gransden in 1881

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

BARTELL (3)  BATCHELOR (1)  BATES (2)  BEARD (1)  BELL (3)  BRIGHT (1)  BULL (6)  CLARK (6)  CLARKE (1)  COOK (5)  COOPER (1)  COX (4)  CRAME (4)  CROSS (6)  DEAN (6)  DIXIE (5)  EAST (13)  ELWOOD (7)  FORTESCUE (6)  GRAVESTOCK (3)  GRAY (2)  HARE (2)  HOLMES (21)  HOUSDEN (20)  HUCKLE (5)  HUGHES (9)  JONES (4)  KING (3)  LAUSON (6)  MERRIL (8)  NEWBY (1)  PEEL (5)  ROOK (2)  SADDLER (3)  SAFFORD (6)  SKINNER (7)  SMITH (17)  STAINES (9)  WAKEFIELD (3)  WHITE (1)  WILSON (4)  WILTSHIRE (2)  WRIGHT (19)