1881 census place

Alston surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Alston, Cumberland in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the district or town. Frequency and index show whether the surname was unusually common locally.

Place summary

142 surnames are listed for Alston, Cumberland, covering 2,519 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Walton, with 263 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Alston

Small places can have high concentration scores even when the raw count is modest. The index column helps separate genuinely local surnames from names that simply appear in large numbers everywhere.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
1	Walton	263	5.67%	80.62x
2	Richardson	122	2.63%	15.46x
3	Armstrong	89	1.92%	25.12x
4	Hetherington	71	1.53%	121.51x
5	Dickinson	67	1.45%	33.85x
6	Graham	66	1.42%	12.40x
7	Teasdale	63	1.36%	160.39x
8	Robson	62	1.34%	20.33x
9	Millican	58	1.25%	662.10x
10	Pickering	56	1.21%	33.49x
11	Spark	55	1.19%	270.00x
12	Vipond	51	1.10%	771.56x
13	Cousin	49	1.06%	539.65x
14	Archer	48	1.04%	25.04x
15	Whitfield	41	0.880%	44.29x
16	Pattinson	39	0.840%	94.02x
17	Parmley	36	0.780%	1674.42x
18	Little	34	0.730%	15.51x
19	Rutherford	34	0.730%	30.06x
20	Dowson	33	0.710%	130.23x
21	Shield	33	0.710%	156.55x
22	Hind	31	0.670%	52.97x
23	Stout	31	0.670%	139.58x
24	Renwick	30	0.650%	94.88x
25	Goodfellow	27	0.580%	65.90x
26	Kirsopp	27	0.580%	1120.33x
27	Bowman	26	0.560%	21.48x
28	Bramwell	26	0.560%	99.39x
29	Nattrass	26	0.560%	484.17x
30	Swindle	26	0.560%	538.30x
31	Tatters	26	0.560%	1209.30x
32	Angus	25	0.540%	37.70x
33	Lancaster	25	0.540%	21.70x
34	Bainbridge	24	0.520%	36.84x
35	Snowdon	24	0.520%	69.48x
36	Kindred	23	0.500%	631.87x
37	Martindale	22	0.470%	82.71x
38	Varty	21	0.450%	314.84x
39	Currah	20	0.430%	778.21x
40	Doyle	20	0.430%	17.72x
41	Haldon	20	0.430%	1025.64x
42	Hornsby	20	0.430%	66.38x
43	Raine	20	0.430%	51.79x
44	Barrow	19	0.410%	19.35x
45	Ridley	18	0.390%	20.09x
46	Featherstone	16	0.350%	38.38x
47	Place	16	0.350%	65.84x
48	Heatherington	15	0.320%	361.45x
49	Hymers	15	0.320%	412.09x
50	Moffatt	15	0.320%	50.30x
51	Havelock	14	0.300%	381.47x
52	Hindmarsh	14	0.300%	75.19x
53	Kearton	14	0.300%	307.69x
54	Wailes	14	0.300%	311.80x
55	Blacklock	13	0.280%	66.02x
56	Slack	13	0.280%	17.80x
57	Clementson	12	0.260%	197.37x
58	Herdman	12	0.260%	102.83x
59	Hewitson	12	0.260%	43.81x
60	Lattimer	12	0.260%	186.92x
61	Milburn	12	0.260%	29.01x
62	Yeates	12	0.260%	46.91x
63	Greenwell	11	0.240%	72.37x
64	Peart	11	0.240%	41.68x
65	Roddam	11	0.240%	298.91x
66	Woodman	11	0.240%	21.48x
67	Dryden	10	0.220%	35.79x
68	Routledge	10	0.220%	25.36x
69	Stokoe	10	0.220%	63.90x
70	Thomason	10	0.220%	36.97x
71	Bayles	9	0.190%	98.25x
72	Dargue	9	0.190%	222.22x
73	Farries	9	0.190%	298.01x
74	Ginn	9	0.190%	70.26x
75	Lightbourn	9	0.190%	1323.53x
76	Raisbeck	9	0.190%	204.55x
77	Akrigg	8	0.170%	601.50x
78	Beadle	8	0.170%	24.58x
79	Gilmore	8	0.170%	29.46x
80	Hudspeth	8	0.170%	184.76x
81	Hudspith	8	0.170%	173.91x
82	Readshaw	8	0.170%	414.51x
83	Byron	7	0.150%	41.30x
84	Cowing	7	0.150%	190.22x
85	Rumney	7	0.150%	96.42x
86	Spottiswood	7	0.150%	636.36x
87	Lavery	6	0.130%	47.10x
88	Woodmass	6	0.130%	845.07x
89	Golightly	5	0.110%	48.59x
90	Nall	5	0.110%	91.74x
91	Ervin	4	0.090%	506.33x
92	Erwin	4	0.090%	136.05x
93	Halson	4	0.090%	239.52x
94	Housby	4	0.090%	263.16x
95	Lovat	4	0.090%	384.62x
96	Morray	4	0.090%	353.98x
97	Smail	4	0.090%	45.40x
98	Tindale	4	0.090%	29.94x
99	Winskill	4	0.090%	107.82x
100	Yeats	4	0.090%	31.25x