1881 census county

Denbighshire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Denbighshire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the county. Frequency shows the local share of the population. Index compares that share with the wider census.

County summary

2,938 surnames are listed for Denbighshire, covering 106,123 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Lea, with 59 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Denbighshire

Total favours larger counties and larger families. Frequency and index are better clues for where a surname stood out locally. Values above 1.00x mean the surname was more concentrated here than in the wider 1881 census.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
101	Lea	59	0.050%	2.71x
102	Parsonage	59	0.050%	21.10x
103	Samuels	59	0.050%	12.64x
104	Colley	58	0.050%	4.15x
105	Dutton	58	0.050%	2.32x
106	Garner	57	0.050%	1.63x
107	Rowley	57	0.050%	1.97x
108	Mills	56	0.050%	0.39x
109	Gibson	54	0.050%	0.40x
110	Holland	54	0.050%	0.69x
111	Prichard	54	0.050%	5.33x
112	Prytherch	54	0.050%	59.33x
113	Pemberton	53	0.050%	3.78x
114	Crewe	51	0.050%	17.68x
115	Shaw	51	0.050%	0.25x
116	Burke	50	0.050%	1.54x
117	Capper	50	0.050%	8.62x
118	Holmes	50	0.050%	0.37x
119	Cunnah	49	0.040%	103.09x
120	Howell	49	0.040%	1.05x
121	Thompson	49	0.040%	0.15x
122	Burton	48	0.040%	0.51x
123	Mason	48	0.040%	0.32x
124	Reynolds	48	0.040%	0.50x
125	Weaver	48	0.040%	1.67x
126	Barnes	47	0.040%	0.35x
127	Watson	47	0.040%	0.18x
128	Woodfine	47	0.040%	47.77x
129	Andrew	46	0.040%	1.32x
130	Beech	46	0.040%	2.82x
131	Griffithes	45	0.040%	150.80x
132	Adams	44	0.040%	0.27x
133	Bartley	44	0.040%	8.29x
134	Bradshaw	44	0.040%	0.97x
135	Gillam	44	0.040%	10.35x
136	Hill	44	0.040%	0.16x
137	Millington	44	0.040%	2.63x
138	Wilkinson	44	0.040%	0.26x
139	Kyffin	43	0.040%	89.79x
140	Newns	43	0.040%	33.82x
141	Richardson	43	0.040%	0.23x
142	Tomkins	42	0.040%	3.67x
143	Anderson	41	0.040%	0.19x
144	Barnett	41	0.040%	0.82x
145	Bennett	41	0.040%	0.23x
146	Bithell	41	0.040%	25.82x
147	Simpson	41	0.040%	0.21x
148	Barker	40	0.040%	0.28x
149	Belton	40	0.040%	6.74x
150	Hayes	40	0.040%	0.58x
151	Kynaston	40	0.040%	19.25x
152	Stevens	40	0.040%	0.35x
153	Daniels	39	0.040%	1.13x
154	Moore	39	0.040%	0.18x
155	Watkin	39	0.040%	4.04x
156	Birch	38	0.030%	0.84x
157	Bostock	38	0.030%	3.67x
158	Brookfield	38	0.030%	11.98x
159	Ingman	38	0.030%	62.51x
160	Nicholas	38	0.030%	1.76x
161	Penk	38	0.030%	103.12x
162	Young	38	0.030%	0.16x
163	Chadwick	37	0.030%	0.77x
164	Crump	37	0.030%	3.10x
165	Dawson	37	0.030%	0.30x
166	Harker	37	0.030%	3.18x
167	Hopwood	37	0.030%	2.94x
168	Barratt	36	0.030%	1.61x
169	Butler	36	0.030%	0.33x
170	Jeffreys	36	0.030%	5.48x
171	Mostyn	36	0.030%	43.23x
172	Peake	36	0.030%	3.38x
173	Wood	36	0.030%	0.10x
174	Coates	35	0.030%	0.85x
175	Savage	35	0.030%	0.83x
176	Ward	35	0.030%	0.15x
177	Woolrich	35	0.030%	31.14x
178	Douglas	34	0.030%	0.64x
179	Gill	34	0.030%	0.44x
180	Gilpin	34	0.030%	10.58x
181	Hewitt	34	0.030%	0.63x
182	Manuel	34	0.030%	10.23x
183	Massey	34	0.030%	1.20x
184	Riley	34	0.030%	0.39x
185	Batten	33	0.030%	3.24x
186	Dicken	33	0.030%	10.62x
187	Fox	33	0.030%	0.32x
188	Oliver	33	0.030%	0.42x
189	Palmer	33	0.030%	0.25x
190	Pickering	33	0.030%	0.83x
191	Ridgway	33	0.030%	3.26x
192	Trevor	33	0.030%	9.64x
193	Booth	32	0.030%	0.29x
194	Chapman	32	0.030%	0.20x
195	Collins	32	0.030%	0.20x
196	Drinkwater	31	0.030%	2.85x
197	Houghton	31	0.030%	0.80x
198	Manley	31	0.030%	2.51x
199	Scott	31	0.030%	0.11x
200	Vaughn	31	0.030%	9.38x