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 Walling, with 44 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
301	Walling	44	0.070%	34.32x
302	Whittam	44	0.070%	18.67x
303	Barber	43	0.070%	1.11x
304	Black	43	0.070%	1.03x
305	Campbell	43	0.070%	0.40x
306	Fletcher	43	0.070%	0.59x
307	Knight	43	0.070%	0.54x
308	Major	43	0.070%	4.96x
309	Marshall	43	0.070%	0.40x
310	Newsham	43	0.070%	21.41x
311	Pickthall	43	0.070%	51.56x
312	Chambers	42	0.070%	1.15x
313	Cummings	42	0.070%	4.25x
314	Hetherington	42	0.070%	5.19x
315	Hewitt	42	0.070%	1.34x
316	Proctor	42	0.070%	2.66x
317	Sarginson	42	0.070%	74.20x
318	Sayer	42	0.070%	4.99x
319	Burn	41	0.060%	4.75x
320	Cloudsdale	41	0.060%	277.21x
321	Dover	41	0.060%	14.18x
322	Groves	41	0.060%	2.27x
323	Long	41	0.060%	0.98x
324	Machell	41	0.060%	51.00x
325	Roberts	41	0.060%	0.17x
326	Tallon	41	0.060%	78.69x
327	Warriner	41	0.060%	21.78x
328	Abbott	40	0.060%	1.41x
329	Crawford	40	0.060%	1.27x
330	Hayes	40	0.060%	1.00x
331	Hornby	40	0.060%	5.47x
332	Palmer	40	0.060%	0.53x
333	Rawlinson	40	0.060%	5.22x
334	Remington	40	0.060%	44.00x
335	Docker	39	0.060%	30.94x
336	Faulkner	39	0.060%	2.24x
337	Hayhurst	39	0.060%	13.90x
338	Herd	39	0.060%	8.27x
339	Kidd	39	0.060%	2.98x
340	Kirkpatrick	39	0.060%	7.05x
341	Lund	39	0.060%	5.61x
342	Winskill	39	0.060%	75.80x
343	Armitstead	38	0.060%	134.32x
344	Compston	38	0.060%	134.32x
345	Davies	38	0.060%	0.12x
346	Howard	38	0.060%	0.60x
347	Lindsay	38	0.060%	1.82x
348	Routledge	38	0.060%	6.96x
349	Stanley	38	0.060%	1.54x
350	Stewardson	38	0.060%	55.57x
351	Yare	38	0.060%	112.19x
352	Birkbeck	37	0.060%	39.32x
353	Briggs	37	0.060%	1.06x
354	Charnley	37	0.060%	12.39x
355	Davidson	37	0.060%	0.69x
356	Dewhurst	37	0.060%	4.86x
357	Dugdale	37	0.060%	8.37x
358	Eccles	37	0.060%	3.60x
359	Goad	37	0.060%	28.25x
360	Harris	37	0.060%	0.23x
361	Head	37	0.060%	2.37x
362	Hind	37	0.060%	4.56x
363	Moffatt	37	0.060%	8.96x
364	Slinger	37	0.060%	19.07x
365	Spedding	37	0.060%	18.60x
366	Stott	37	0.060%	1.84x
367	Bentham	36	0.060%	12.27x
368	Byers	36	0.060%	10.81x
369	Dowthwaite	36	0.060%	63.12x
370	Gould	36	0.060%	1.55x
371	Greenbank	36	0.060%	50.88x
372	Harper	36	0.060%	0.88x
373	Robertson	36	0.060%	0.33x
374	White	36	0.060%	0.17x
375	Williamson	36	0.060%	0.63x
376	Bardgett	35	0.050%	308.10x
377	Bewsher	35	0.050%	82.04x
378	Bindloss	35	0.050%	211.99x
379	Edgar	35	0.050%	3.54x
380	Evans	35	0.050%	0.12x
381	Frankland	35	0.050%	7.36x
382	Gregson	35	0.050%	3.94x
383	Hully	35	0.050%	105.33x
384	Johnstone	35	0.050%	1.21x
385	Railton	35	0.050%	20.64x
386	Thomson	35	0.050%	0.41x
387	Warwick	35	0.050%	3.94x
388	Woodhouse	35	0.050%	2.30x
389	Allinson	34	0.050%	12.21x
390	Blackett	34	0.050%	13.86x
391	Ewin	34	0.050%	95.53x
392	Frith	34	0.050%	5.31x
393	Hebson	34	0.050%	114.90x
394	Jameson	34	0.050%	4.79x
395	Birtle	33	0.050%	84.12x
396	Browne	33	0.050%	2.81x
397	Otway	33	0.050%	54.01x
398	Satterthwaite	33	0.050%	29.95x
399	Tanner	33	0.050%	2.29x
400	Townson	33	0.050%	12.25x