Top surnames from the 1881 census in Shephall, Hertfordshire

Shephall is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Hertfordshire

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
GATES114.8458312.50
COLLINS93.964827.63
CARTER93.964823.62
CANNON93.9648218.98
KIDDLE83.52421,632.65
NORTH73.083793.09
ALLEN62.643213.99
MACKENZIE62.643294.49
BRAY62.643278.64
HUTCHINS62.6432262.01
NASH62.643257.31
PEARMAN52.2026458.72
AXTELL52.20261,785.71
WEBB52.202616.25
PHILLIPS52.202612.31
WARD52.202610.08
PARSONS41.762123.19
BISHOP41.762125.22
WHITE41.76215.48
ODELL41.7621240.96
GRAY31.32169.26
WINTERS31.3216312.50
WILSON31.32162.88
NEWSON31.3216209.79
SPRIGGS31.3216265.49
ARCHBOLD31.3216555.56
CHERRY31.3216129.31
BARWELL20.8811285.71
CRABTREE20.881143.76
CHALKLEY20.8811285.71
WEBSTER10.44055.07
TAYLOR10.44050.69
RUSSELL10.44053.61
PEARCE10.44054.80
PARCELL10.4405555.56
LUCAS10.44059.52
WRAY10.440532.79
PATE10.4405106.38
FRANCIS10.44057.40
SELL10.4405144.93
KING10.44052.02

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
AXTELL0.232271785.7143
KIDDLE0.232271632.6531
PARCELL0.23227555.5556
ARCHBOLD0.23227555.5556
PEARMAN0.23227458.7156
GATES0.23227312.5000
WINTERS0.23227312.5000
BARWELL0.23227285.7143
CHALKLEY0.23227285.7143
SPRIGGS0.23227265.4867
HUTCHINS0.23227262.0087
ODELL0.23227240.9639
CANNON0.23227218.9781
NEWSON0.23227209.7902
SELL0.23227144.9275
CHERRY0.23227129.3103
PATE0.23227106.3830
MACKENZIE0.2322794.4882
NORTH0.2322793.0851
BRAY0.2322778.6370
NASH0.2322757.3066
CRABTREE0.2322743.7637
WRAY0.2322732.7869
COLLINS0.2322727.6328
BISHOP0.2322725.2207
CARTER0.2322723.6220
PARSONS0.2322723.1884
WEBB0.2322716.2496
ALLEN0.2322713.9925
PHILLIPS0.2322712.3122
WARD0.2322710.0827
LUCAS0.232279.5238
GRAY0.232279.2564
FRANCIS0.232277.3964
WHITE0.232275.4817
WEBSTER0.232275.0659
PEARCE0.232274.7962
RUSSELL0.232273.6088
WILSON0.232272.8774
KING0.232272.0214
TAYLOR0.232270.6888

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 227 people called AXTELL in Shephall 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 1785.7143 in Shephall means that 1785.7143% of the people in Shephall on census day were called AXTELL.

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

All the surnames recorded in Shephall in 1881

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

ALLEN (6)  ARCHBOLD (3)  AXTELL (5)  BARWELL (2)  BISHOP (4)  BRAY (6)  CANNON (9)  CARTER (9)  CHALKLEY (2)  CHERRY (3)  COLLINS (9)  CRABTREE (2)  DEARDS (7)  DESBOROUGH (3)  ELPICK (1)  FALDER (15)  FRANCIS (1)  GATES OR GANT (12)  GATES (11)  GOODSHIP (7)  GRAY (3)  HANCHANT (7)  HUTCHINS (6)  KIDDLE (8)  KING (1)  LUCAS (1)  MACKENZIE (6)  NASH (6)  NEWSON (3)  NORTH (7)  ODELL (4)  PARCELL (1)  PARSONS (4)  PATE (1)  PATERNOSTER (11)  PEARCE (1)  PEARMAN (5)  PHILLIPS (5)  WRAY (1)  RUSSELL (1)  SELL (1)  SPRIGGS (3)  STRATFIELD (1)  TAYLOR (1)  TITT (1)  WARD (5)  WEBB (5)  WEBSTER (1)  WHITE (4)  WILSON (3)  WINTERS (3)