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 Bennion, with 30 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
201	Bennion	30	0.030%	12.04x
202	Bevan	30	0.030%	1.11x
203	Challoner	30	0.030%	11.11x
204	Formstone	30	0.030%	96.96x
205	Gabriel	30	0.030%	10.27x
206	Gough	30	0.030%	0.93x
207	Holt	30	0.030%	0.41x
208	Millward	30	0.030%	2.42x
209	Warburton	30	0.030%	1.10x
210	Windsor	30	0.030%	3.26x
211	Anwyl	29	0.030%	44.73x
212	Bradley	29	0.030%	0.33x
213	Burgess	29	0.030%	0.38x
214	Clayton	29	0.030%	0.48x
215	Darlington	29	0.030%	3.87x
216	Fraser	29	0.030%	0.30x
217	Higgins	29	0.030%	0.52x
218	Langford	29	0.030%	1.67x
219	Littler	29	0.030%	3.96x
220	Philips	29	0.030%	1.42x
221	Samuel	29	0.030%	2.20x
222	Yates	29	0.030%	0.38x
223	Bather	28	0.030%	25.50x
224	Brooks	28	0.030%	0.26x
225	Edge	28	0.030%	1.47x
226	Fletcher	28	0.030%	0.22x
227	Liversage	28	0.030%	27.43x
228	Pridding	28	0.030%	128.79x
229	Roden	28	0.030%	5.42x
230	Stewart	28	0.030%	0.16x
231	Wilde	28	0.030%	1.74x
232	Woodward	28	0.030%	0.51x
233	Barlow	27	0.020%	0.45x
234	Barton	27	0.020%	0.45x
235	Bassett	27	0.020%	1.57x
236	Bloor	27	0.020%	4.43x
237	Breese	27	0.020%	9.15x
238	Chatham	27	0.020%	15.46x
239	Corfield	27	0.020%	4.33x
240	Hesketh	27	0.020%	2.56x
241	Ledsham	27	0.020%	26.65x
242	Loftus	27	0.020%	4.49x
243	Simons	27	0.020%	1.85x
244	Stant	27	0.020%	53.49x
245	Tomlinson	27	0.020%	0.53x
246	Bate	26	0.020%	1.39x
247	Dean	26	0.020%	0.34x
248	Hooson	26	0.020%	12.06x
249	Kerfoot	26	0.020%	11.94x
250	Mathias	26	0.020%	3.88x
251	Miller	26	0.020%	0.13x
252	Moses	26	0.020%	2.30x
253	Pearson	26	0.020%	0.20x
254	Wall	26	0.020%	0.67x
255	Wilding	26	0.020%	2.00x
256	Duffy	25	0.020%	1.04x
257	Harvey	25	0.020%	0.21x
258	Howard	25	0.020%	0.23x
259	Poole	25	0.020%	0.47x
260	Watkins	25	0.020%	0.37x
261	William	25	0.020%	2.65x
262	Blunt	24	0.020%	2.69x
263	Cheetham	24	0.020%	1.41x
264	Doyle	24	0.020%	0.89x
265	Eyton	24	0.020%	44.31x
266	Gibbons	24	0.020%	0.68x
267	Halliwell	24	0.020%	1.96x
268	Miles	24	0.020%	0.37x
269	Ollerhead	24	0.020%	36.19x
270	Rawlinson	24	0.020%	1.82x
271	Steen	24	0.020%	11.15x
272	Arthur	23	0.020%	0.96x
273	Bithel	23	0.020%	43.06x
274	Boote	23	0.020%	13.25x
275	Crawford	23	0.020%	0.43x
276	Edward	23	0.020%	2.25x
277	Finchett	23	0.020%	62.42x
278	Hayward	23	0.020%	0.49x
279	Hunt	23	0.020%	0.16x
280	Joyce	23	0.020%	0.85x
281	Mercer	23	0.020%	0.79x
282	Michell	23	0.020%	4.38x
283	Norman	23	0.020%	0.45x
284	Paddock	23	0.020%	8.16x
285	Saunders	23	0.020%	0.23x
286	Woollam	23	0.020%	25.48x
287	Atkins	22	0.020%	0.53x
288	Bird	22	0.020%	0.26x
289	Dickin	22	0.020%	16.59x
290	Eaton	22	0.020%	0.71x
291	Garside	22	0.020%	1.38x
292	Graham	22	0.020%	0.17x
293	Hamer	22	0.020%	1.06x
294	Johnston	22	0.020%	0.25x
295	Knowles	22	0.020%	0.37x
296	Mcdermott	22	0.020%	11.14x
297	Pearce	22	0.020%	0.22x
298	Blower	21	0.020%	3.22x
299	Broad	21	0.020%	1.50x
300	Challenor	21	0.020%	19.32x