Top surnames from the 1881 census in Hittisleigh, Devon

Hittisleigh 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
ROWE187.7253136.05
BAKER166.867031.34
KEMP146.0086108.36
MAY104.291867.43
BEER104.2918268.10
LEACH104.2918104.06
DART83.4335740.74
GREGORY83.433548.93
CURSON73.00431,320.75
WILLSON62.5751229.89
PALMER62.575121.85
WILSON62.57515.61
HAYDON52.1459342.47
DREW41.716765.04
HUNT41.716712.92
MILLMAN31.2876468.75
BUTT20.858466.45
HUSSY20.85842,857.14
HUSSEY20.858485.11
MATTHEWS20.85849.84
HUTCHINGS20.858445.66
SHORE20.858479.68
FROST20.858415.27
MATHEWS20.858423.26
TAVERNER10.4292238.10
ASHMORE10.429257.47
DUNNING10.429250.51
LIAS10.42922,500.00
SOBEY10.4292400.00
LENNARD10.4292188.68
TOBEY10.42923,333.33
DIAS10.42921,666.67

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
TOBEY0.232333333.3333
HUSSY0.232332857.1429
LIAS0.232332500.0000
DIAS0.232331666.6667
CURSON0.232331320.7547
DART0.23233740.7407
MILLMAN0.23233468.7500
SOBEY0.23233400.0000
HAYDON0.23233342.4658
BEER0.23233268.0965
TAVERNER0.23233238.0952
WILLSON0.23233229.8851
LENNARD0.23233188.6792
ROWE0.23233136.0544
KEMP0.23233108.3591
LEACH0.23233104.0583
HUSSEY0.2323385.1064
SHORE0.2323379.6813
MAY0.2323367.4309
BUTT0.2323366.4452
DREW0.2323365.0407
ASHMORE0.2323357.4713
DUNNING0.2323350.5051
GREGORY0.2323348.9297
HUTCHINGS0.2323345.6621
BAKER0.2323331.3418
MATHEWS0.2323323.2558
PALMER0.2323321.8500
FROST0.2323315.2672
HUNT0.2323312.9241
MATTHEWS0.232339.8425
WILSON0.232335.6070

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 233 people called TOBEY in Hittisleigh 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 Hittisleigh means that 3333.3333% of the people in Hittisleigh on census day were called TOBEY.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called TOBEY 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 TOBEY 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 TOBEY 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 TOBEY here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.23 in Hittisleigh means that you are 0.23 times as likely to find someone with the surname of TOBEY in Hittisleigh than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Hittisleigh in 1881

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

ASHMORE (1)  ASHPLANT (18)  ASKMORE (1)  BAKER (16)  BATTISHILL (8)  BEER (10)  BRIMICOMBE (2)  BUTT (2)  CURSON (7)  CURSONS (7)  DART (8)  DAYDON (5)  DREW (4)  DUNNING (1)  DIAS (1)  FROST (2)  GORWYN (5)  GORWYRE (5)  GREGORY (8)  HAYDON (5)  HUNT (4)  HUSSEY (2)  HUSSY (2)  HUTCHINGS (2)  KEMP (14)  KNAPMAN (4)  LEACH (10)  LENNARD (1)  LIAS (1)  MATHEWS (2)  MATTHEWS (2)  MAY (10)  MIDDLEWICK (2)  MILLMAN (3)  MILLMON (3)  PALMER (6)  PONSFORD (8)  POWSLAND (1)  POWLAND (1)  ROWE (18)  SEUAL (1)  SHORE (2)  SINALE (1)  SOBEY (1)  TAVENER (1)  TAVERNER (1)  TOBEY (1)  TOWNMAND (1)  WILLSON (6)  WILSON (6)