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Common names, less likely to be misspelt, have approx twice as many entries on freebmd as on the 1891 census. Even granted underregistration, you would always expect births over approx 60 years to exceed the number of entries on a census.

The correlation between freebmd and 1891 is not necessarily a guide to the authenticity of the name. Registration wasn't compulsory until 1875; plus, not all births have yet been added to freebmd. The full bmd records may be more enlightening......... Reg

Not entirely convinced, Fuzzy. Less than 40 freebmd births and over 200 1891 entries. It may exist, but most look like mistranscriptions.

There are 144 Doming entries on the IGI for the UK. A quick scan through the list suggests the majority are from the West Country......Dorset and Devon in particular. (I have not looked to see if these are submitted or extracted entries, but Dorset ones are often submitted :o(( Merry

The ones I've checked so far come between Dominey and Domoney, so (if the contemporary clerks got it right) the m is correct. I'd have thought that the modern typists would have got it right, but Googling produces very dubious results and most of the entries on family search are clearly mistranscriptions.

Hi Phoenix, Just ran a search on Doming on Ancestry, and there are loads, the name obviously is a genuine surname.I have checked several of the images ane they are not mistranscribed. Fuzzy x

Don't know about Doming, but Dorning is a surname and when you type them they both look pretty similar - so imagine the same could apply with handwritten versions? Jay

My Dominy/Domoney family can be spelt in so many different ways that I tend to search on Dom* to pick up the variants. Curiously, I have come across several Domings, usually in Dominy heartlands. Looking at FREEBMD, together with the original images, these are not mistranscriptions, by freebmd, but the indexes are typed. So are these GRO errors, or does the surname Doming exist?