Smithson surname distribution in the 1881 census

Figures are shown in the Table below indicating the percentages of Smithsons within individual Counties and as a percentage of all Smithsons within England, Scotland and Wales. The percentage of each County as a total of the overall population is also shown as some Counties have far larger populations than others.

Using these figures it is easy to make comparisons of the ‘density’ of Smithsons within individual Counties and this is shown to indicate how the figures compare. The higher the density figure, the more common the Smithson name is within each County.

County	Total Population	Smithson Qty	Smithson %	% County of total British Isles	Density	Smithson % of total Smithsons
Bedfordshire	156568	1	0.0006	0.5169	0.0655	0.0338
Berkshire	250942	1	0.0004	0.8284	0.0409	0.0338
Buckinghamshire	158530	0	0.0000	0.5233	0.0000	0.0000
Cambridgeshire	193780	0	0.0000	0.6397	0.0000	0.0000
Cheshire	632471	22	0.0035	2.0879	0.3566	0.7445
Cornwall	332239	0	0.0000	1.0968	0.0000	0.0000
Cumberland	253866	60	0.0236	0.8381	2.4228	2.0305
Derbyshire	391573	21	0.0054	1.2926	0.5498	0.7107
Devonshire	619507	2	0.0003	2.0451	0.0331	0.0677
Dorset	187765	0	0.0000	0.6198	0.0000	0.0000
Durham	885377	196	0.0221	2.9228	2.2694	6.6328
Essex	561071	26	0.0046	1.8522	0.4750	0.8799
Gloucestershire	534265	2	0.0004	1.7637	0.0384	0.0677
Hampshire	587213	12	0.0020	1.9385	0.2095	0.4061
Herefordshire	119968	0	0.0000	0.3960	0.0000	0.0000
Hertfordshire	205005	4	0.0020	0.6768	0.2000	0.1354
Huntingdonshire	54218	0	0.0000	0.1790	0.0000	0.0000
Kent	1007594	111	0.0110	3.3262	1.1293	3.7563
Lancashire	3548122	302	0.0085	11.7129	0.8725	10.2200
Leicestershire	331398	5	0.0015	1.0940	0.1547	0.1692
Lincolnshire	469716	220	0.0468	1.5506	4.8013	7.4450
Middlesex	2954862	185	0.0063	9.7545	0.6418	6.2606
Miscellaneous	1267	0	0.0000	0.0042	0.0000	0.0000
Norfolk	443977	110	0.0248	1.4656	2.5399	3.7225
Northamptonshire	281108	0	0.0000	0.9280	0.0000	0.0000
Northumberland	439323	60	0.0137	1.4503	1.4000	2.0305
Nottinghamshire	442869	87	0.0196	1.4620	2.0138	2.9442
Oxfordshire	184830	0	0.0000	0.6102	0.0000	0.0000
Royal Navy	29710	0	0.0000	0.0981	0.0000	0.0000
Rutland	23387	1	0.0043	0.0772	0.4383	0.0338
Shropshire	269434	3	0.0011	0.8894	0.1141	0.1015
Somerset	497912	4	0.0008	1.6437	0.0824	0.1354
Staffordshire	1020529	26	0.0025	3.3689	0.2612	0.8799
Suffolk	359083	4	0.0011	1.1854	0.1142	0.1354
Surrey	1454090	74	0.0051	4.8002	0.5217	2.5042
Sussex	500991	8	0.0016	1.6539	0.1637	0.2707
Warwickshire	744087	19	0.0026	2.4563	0.2618	0.6430
Westmorland	65100	3	0.0046	0.2149	0.4724	0.1015
Wiltshire	252713	1	0.0004	0.8342	0.0406	0.0338
Worcestershire	388245	2	0.0005	1.2817	0.0528	0.0677
Yorkshire	2944723	1349	0.0458	9.7210	4.6962	45.6514
Anglesey	35770	0	0.0000	0.1181	0.0000	0.0000
Brecknock	55225	0	0.0000	0.1823	0.0000	0.0000
Caernarvon	126006	0	0.0000	0.4160	0.0000	0.0000
Cardigan	96607	0	0.0000	0.3189	0.0000	0.0000
Carmarthen	112820	0	0.0000	0.3724	0.0000	0.0000
Denbigh	115200	0	0.0000	0.3803	0.0000	0.0000
Flint	45975	0	0.0000	0.1518	0.0000	0.0000
Glamorgan	522037	9	0.0117	1.7233	0.1767	0.3046
Merioneth	69385	0	0.0000	0.2291	0.0000	0.0000
Monmouth	237510	0	0.0000	0.7841	0.0000	0.0000
Montgomery	77676	0	0.0000	0.2564	0.0000	0.0000
Pembroke	84891	0	0.0000	0.2802	0.0000	0.0000
Radnor	18817	0	0.0000	0.0621	0.0000	0.0000
Aberdeen	271279	0	0.0000	0.8955	0.0000	0.0000
Angus/Forfar	271242	0	0.0000	0.8954	0.0000	0.0000
Argyll	81689	0	0.0000	0.2697	0.0000	0.0000
Ayr	220142	10	0.0045	0.7267	0.4657	0.3384
Banff	60475	0	0.0000	0.1996	0.0000	0.0000
Berwick	35748	0	0.0000	0.1180	0.0000	0.0000
Bute	17924	0	0.0000	0.0592	0.0000	0.0000
Caithness	40076	0	0.0000	0.1323	0.0000	0.0000
Clackmannan	24370	0	0.0000	0.0804	0.0000	0.0000
Dumfries	65231	0	0.0000	0.2153	0.0000	0.0000
Dunbarton	79102	0	0.0000	0.2611	0.0000	0.0000
East Lothian/ Haddlington	39317	0	0.0000	0.1298	0.0000	0.0000
Fife	174210	0	0.0000	0.5751	0.0000	0.0000
Inverness	89526	0	0.0000	0.2955	0.0000	0.0000
Kincardine	35890	0	0.0000	0.1185	0.0000	0.0000
Kinross	7528	0	0.0000	0.0249	0.0000	0.0000
Kirkcudbright	42969	0	0.0000	0.1418	0.0000	0.0000
Lanark	955785	2	0.0002	3.1552	0.0215	0.0677
Midlothian	392995	4	0.0010	1.2973	0.1043	0.1354
Moray/Elgin	45555	0	0.0000	0.1504	0.0000	0.0000
Nairn	8942	0	0.0000	0.0295	0.0000	0.0000
Orkney	32155	0	0.0000	0.1061	0.0000	0.0000
Peebles	13871	0	0.0000	0.0458	0.0000	0.0000
Perth	132167	0	0.0000	0.4363	0.0000	0.0000
Renfrew	229284	0	0.0000	0.7569	0.0000	0.0000
Ross & Cromarty	80078	0	0.0000	0.2644	0.0000	0.0000
Roxburgh	53103	2	0.0038	0.1753	0.3861	0.0677
Selkirk	26613	0	0.0000	0.0879	0.0000	0.0000
Shetland	30185	0	0.0000	0.0996	0.0000	0.0000
Stirling	108413	0	0.0000	0.3579	0.0000	0.0000
Sutherland	22562	0	0.0000	0.0745	0.0000	0.0000
West Lothian/ Linlithgow	44371	0	0.0000	0.1465	0.0000	0.0000
Wigtown	38777	0	0.0000	0.1280	0.0000	0.0000
Guernsey & adj. islands	34555	7	0.0203	0.1141	2.0766	0.2369
Jersey	52965	0	0.0000	0.1748	0.0000	0.0000
Isle of Man	55947	0	0.0000	0.1847	0.0000	0.0000
Total	30,292,388	2,955	0.0098	100.00		100.00

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Smithson surname distribution in the 1881 census

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