1881 census place

Basford surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Basford, Nottinghamshire 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

804 surnames are listed for Basford, Nottinghamshire, covering 9,031 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Brown, with 294 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Basford

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	Brown	294	1.62%	2.46x
2	Shaw	138	0.760%	4.14x
3	Spencer	135	0.740%	8.15x
4	Burton	118	0.650%	7.63x
5	Tomlinson	109	0.600%	13.02x
6	Webster	90	0.500%	5.70x
7	Dexter	78	0.430%	58.51x
8	Cox	77	0.420%	2.80x
9	Woodward	77	0.420%	8.60x
10	Pearson	76	0.420%	3.60x
11	Birch	67	0.370%	9.01x
12	Fox	67	0.370%	3.98x
13	Morley	67	0.370%	9.24x
14	Widdowson	67	0.370%	69.49x
15	Newton	66	0.360%	4.75x
16	Elliott	62	0.340%	4.03x
17	Hodgkinson	62	0.340%	19.88x
18	Walters	62	0.340%	7.16x
19	Slack	60	0.330%	20.98x
20	Stapleton	57	0.310%	31.28x
21	Raynor	56	0.310%	44.51x
22	Bexon	54	0.300%	298.01x
23	Stevenson	54	0.300%	4.24x
24	Chambers	53	0.290%	5.14x
25	Towlson	53	0.290%	381.84x
26	Henson	50	0.280%	23.50x
27	Atkin	48	0.260%	19.79x
28	Kershaw	48	0.260%	8.20x
29	Marriott	46	0.250%	11.32x
30	Bramley	45	0.250%	27.16x
31	Brownlow	45	0.250%	82.24x
32	Potter	45	0.250%	3.82x
33	Rayner	45	0.250%	9.94x
34	Gunn	44	0.240%	9.90x
35	Tomlin	44	0.240%	27.11x
36	Gill	43	0.240%	3.35x
37	Greensmith	43	0.240%	88.26x
38	Redgate	43	0.240%	159.08x
39	Fearn	42	0.230%	30.99x
40	Diggle	41	0.230%	61.78x
41	Grocock	41	0.230%	148.07x
42	Hind	40	0.220%	17.46x
43	Staniforth	40	0.220%	58.11x
44	Meakin	39	0.210%	27.56x
45	Attenborough	37	0.200%	98.64x
46	Daykin	37	0.200%	59.05x
47	Mellors	37	0.200%	65.30x
48	Osborne	37	0.200%	4.27x
49	Rockley	37	0.200%	177.97x
50	Wardle	37	0.200%	10.54x
51	Fish	36	0.200%	10.65x
52	Pendleton	36	0.200%	53.66x
53	Truman	36	0.200%	31.85x
54	Clay	35	0.190%	9.40x
55	Hawley	35	0.190%	19.73x
56	Hickling	35	0.190%	35.94x
57	Smedley	35	0.190%	23.57x
58	Roe	34	0.190%	9.62x
59	Soar	33	0.180%	77.14x
60	Raven	32	0.180%	21.00x
61	Birkett	31	0.170%	17.70x
62	Guyler	31	0.170%	360.47x
63	Carnell	30	0.170%	54.64x
64	Hooton	30	0.170%	47.88x
65	Pinder	30	0.170%	13.72x
66	Summers	30	0.170%	5.89x
67	Wheatley	30	0.170%	8.11x
68	Dennis	29	0.160%	5.40x
69	Fidler	29	0.160%	24.98x
70	Smart	29	0.160%	3.51x
71	Turton	29	0.160%	14.22x
72	Comery	28	0.150%	244.54x
73	Easom	28	0.150%	234.51x
74	Phoenix	28	0.150%	115.80x
75	Betts	27	0.150%	6.96x
76	Wallis	27	0.150%	4.39x
77	Corbett	26	0.140%	7.31x
78	Holroyd	26	0.140%	12.88x
79	Fenton	25	0.140%	6.90x
80	Gamble	25	0.140%	9.63x
81	Ingham	25	0.140%	5.54x
82	Binks	24	0.130%	22.41x
83	Coxon	24	0.130%	17.30x
84	Cutts	24	0.130%	16.82x
85	Gadsby	24	0.130%	32.30x
86	Grundy	24	0.130%	6.46x
87	Hopewell	24	0.130%	55.08x
88	Shipstone	24	0.130%	317.04x
89	Twells	24	0.130%	101.01x
90	Woolley	24	0.130%	6.66x
91	Bingham	23	0.130%	8.63x
92	Haslam	23	0.130%	8.34x
93	Oldham	23	0.130%	7.21x
94	Towle	23	0.130%	47.98x
95	Torr	22	0.120%	56.19x
96	Wass	22	0.120%	22.33x
97	Anthony	21	0.120%	9.96x
98	Bowley	21	0.120%	21.08x
99	Leivers	21	0.120%	145.03x
100	Lester	21	0.120%	7.35x