1881 census county

Westmorland surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Westmorland 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

3,021 surnames are listed for Westmorland, covering 60,155 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Mercer, with 11 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Westmorland

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
901	Mercer	11	0.020%	0.65x
902	Morrison	11	0.020%	0.22x
903	Nevinson	11	0.020%	81.48x
904	Pickles	11	0.020%	0.84x
905	Pugmire	11	0.020%	64.97x
906	Rack	11	0.020%	45.42x
907	Ratcliffe	11	0.020%	0.62x
908	Reade	11	0.020%	5.70x
909	Redmayne	11	0.020%	12.96x
910	Richard	11	0.020%	1.99x
911	Ripley	11	0.020%	2.59x
912	Smedley	11	0.020%	2.09x
913	Swain	11	0.020%	0.89x
914	Swainbank	11	0.020%	114.11x
915	Swinglehurst	11	0.020%	82.77x
916	Udall	11	0.020%	9.16x
917	Westlake	11	0.020%	2.37x
918	Whitworth	11	0.020%	1.03x
919	Wilding	11	0.020%	1.46x
920	Ashburner	10	0.020%	11.05x
921	Bains	10	0.020%	6.27x
922	Balme	10	0.020%	21.70x
923	Blythe	10	0.020%	2.05x
924	Bolt	10	0.020%	2.15x
925	Borrowdale	10	0.020%	19.94x
926	Brooks	10	0.020%	0.16x
927	Brumwell	10	0.020%	19.36x
928	Burdett	10	0.020%	2.21x
929	Cape	10	0.020%	6.11x
930	Cartmell	10	0.020%	7.75x
931	Cassie	10	0.020%	9.27x
932	Clements	10	0.020%	0.47x
933	Cock	10	0.020%	1.42x
934	Cockfield	10	0.020%	33.08x
935	Collins	10	0.020%	0.11x
936	Colman	10	0.020%	1.67x
937	Corrie	10	0.020%	6.85x
938	Day	10	0.020%	0.17x
939	Denwood	10	0.020%	29.33x
940	Diskin	10	0.020%	50.71x
941	Dodding	10	0.020%	61.39x
942	Fife	10	0.020%	5.85x
943	French	10	0.020%	0.32x
944	Germain	10	0.020%	17.67x
945	Glendenning	10	0.020%	10.85x
946	Godfrey	10	0.020%	0.53x
947	Goodman	10	0.020%	0.53x
948	Goss	10	0.020%	1.79x
949	Gray	10	0.020%	0.11x
950	Guntrip	10	0.020%	27.44x
951	Hayward	10	0.020%	0.37x
952	Herdson	10	0.020%	122.85x
953	Higginson	10	0.020%	1.56x
954	Humphreys	10	0.020%	0.44x
955	Jaques	10	0.020%	2.11x
956	Kemp	10	0.020%	0.28x
957	Kennedy	10	0.020%	0.26x
958	Leslie	10	0.020%	0.94x
959	Lightfoot	10	0.020%	1.12x
960	Lodge	10	0.020%	0.86x
961	Mackie	10	0.020%	0.73x
962	Nicholl	10	0.020%	2.98x
963	Nutter	10	0.020%	2.04x
964	Oglethorpe	10	0.020%	53.62x
965	Pears	10	0.020%	3.39x
966	Porter	10	0.020%	0.21x
967	Radcliffe	10	0.020%	1.34x
968	Ross	10	0.020%	0.14x
969	Ryder	10	0.020%	0.90x
970	Sagar	10	0.020%	3.84x
971	Sandford	10	0.020%	2.19x
972	Sargeant	10	0.020%	1.98x
973	Sawer	10	0.020%	20.02x
974	Story	10	0.020%	2.51x
975	Sykes	10	0.020%	0.32x
976	Tatters	10	0.020%	33.56x
977	Udale	10	0.020%	29.90x
978	Wall	10	0.020%	0.45x
979	Wardley	10	0.020%	6.21x
980	Waters	10	0.020%	0.39x
981	Welsh	10	0.020%	0.39x
982	Weston	10	0.020%	0.38x
983	Wilcock	10	0.020%	1.10x
984	Willey	10	0.020%	1.73x
985	Wrathall	10	0.020%	18.73x
986	Wray	10	0.020%	1.16x
987	Yeats	10	0.020%	5.64x
988	Ames	9	0.010%	2.04x
989	Bannerman	9	0.010%	4.00x
990	Bath	9	0.010%	1.87x
991	Bayliffe	9	0.010%	49.40x
992	Boak	9	0.010%	14.89x
993	Bulman	9	0.010%	3.85x
994	Butcher	9	0.010%	0.33x
995	Byrne	9	0.010%	1.01x
996	Cameron	9	0.010%	0.18x
997	Charlton	9	0.010%	0.49x
998	Clemmet	9	0.010%	58.33x
999	Cousins	9	0.010%	0.78x
1000	Cruikshank	9	0.010%	9.39x