National Trust Names: International comparisons on the selected name or category of names

Frequency and Ethnicity Map of 1881 Map of 1998

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**International Comparisons**
International Comparisons	Rate	As % of GB rate in 1998
Great Britain Frequency (1998)	2125	100
Great Britain Frequency (1881)	1779
Great Britain Rate (1998)	53
Great Britain Rate (1881)	66
Northern Ireland	5.67	10.7
Republic of Ireland	3.41	6.5
Australia	66.20	125.4
New Zealand	93.24	176.6
United States	176.86	335.0
Canada	61.88	117.2

**Geographical Spread**
Geographical Spread	Statistics
Great Britain top area (1881)	Plymouth
Great Britain top area (1998)	Plymouth
Great Britain top area index *	1358
Great Britain top postal town	Camelford
Number of UK gazetteer entries	1
County of gazetteer entry	West Lothian
Republic of Ireland top county
Republic of Ireland top county index *
Australia top state	Victoria
Australia top state index *	140
Australia top standard statistical division	Warrnambool, Victoria
New Zealand top province	Canterbury
New Zealand top province index *	211
United States top state	Kentucky
United States top state index *	369
Number of gazetteer entires in Africa or Asian	none
African or Asian country with most gazetteer entries
Number of gazetteer entries in African or Asian country named above

**Social Demographics**
Social Demographics	Statistics
Category of surname	English - Locational Name; Place; Other
Mosaic type with highest index #	Tourist Attendants
Index of top Mosaic type *	253
% of people with a more rural name	27
% of people with a more high-status name	16
Cultural, Ethnic, Linguistic categories of surname	British

# Mosaic is a social classification. More information is available here.

* Meaning of an 'index' : An 'index' shows whether the level of something is higher in one area than it is in another area. In this instance we are interested in whether the number of occurrences of a name per million population is higher in a particular area than it is elsewhere. Thus we compare the incidence of a name in the US state where it is most concentrated with the average level of concentration in the whole of the US; the incidence in Australia's top state with the Australian average; the incidence in New Zealand's top province with the New Zealand average; the incidence in GB's top postal area with the GB average.

* Calculation of an 'index' : If a name has a rate per million population in an area which is identical to its rate in a base comparison area then we say it has an index of '100'. An index of '200' for a the name Jenson in Ohio would mean that the name Jenson was twice as common, per million population, in Ohio as it was in the reference area, in this case the whole US. An index of '500' for Wong in Victoria would indicate that the name Wong was five times more common per 1,000,000 names in Victoria than in the whole of Australia. An index of '1000' for the name Penhaligon in New Zealand would mean it was ten times more common per 1,000.000 names in New Zealand than in Great Britain. By contrast an index of only '50' would indicate a name which was only half as common in a target area than in its reference area.