1881 census place

Bedlington surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Bedlington, Northumberland 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

523 surnames are listed for Bedlington, Northumberland, covering 7,864 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Thompson, with 225 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Bedlington

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	Thompson	225	1.55%	5.17x
2	Scott	196	1.35%	5.34x
3	Dixon	191	1.32%	12.01x
4	Richardson	147	1.01%	5.95x
5	Bell	143	0.990%	5.24x
6	Young	134	0.920%	4.30x
7	Tait	128	0.880%	29.95x
8	Watson	120	0.830%	3.56x
9	Davison	117	0.810%	22.55x
10	Robson	115	0.790%	12.04x
11	Charlton	111	0.760%	26.69x
12	Short	110	0.760%	19.40x
13	Gray	93	0.640%	4.49x
14	Miller	93	0.640%	3.58x
15	Oliver	90	0.620%	8.69x
16	Carr	81	0.560%	7.73x
17	Dawson	81	0.560%	5.06x
18	Patterson	81	0.560%	16.01x
19	Turnbull	80	0.550%	13.08x
20	Dunn	79	0.540%	6.54x
21	Todd	74	0.510%	10.02x
22	Elliott	72	0.500%	5.85x
23	Henderson	71	0.490%	4.50x
24	Dodds	63	0.430%	20.62x
25	Pringle	58	0.400%	25.37x
26	Laws	57	0.390%	35.32x
27	Rutherford	56	0.390%	15.81x
28	Thornton	55	0.380%	7.54x
29	Hindmarsh	54	0.370%	92.62x
30	Ridley	53	0.370%	18.89x
31	Nicholson	52	0.360%	5.04x
32	Swann	52	0.360%	32.83x
33	Maughan	50	0.340%	61.71x
34	Reed	50	0.340%	4.72x
35	Hedley	47	0.320%	31.70x
36	Douglass	44	0.300%	47.71x
37	Simm	43	0.300%	76.55x
38	Storey	42	0.290%	11.39x
39	Reay	41	0.280%	32.54x
40	Burn	40	0.280%	20.48x
41	Swinhoe	40	0.280%	394.87x
42	Auld	39	0.270%	44.58x
43	Crawford	39	0.270%	5.49x
44	Kidd	39	0.270%	13.20x
45	Foreman	37	0.250%	19.50x
46	Lynn	37	0.250%	29.21x
47	Stoker	36	0.250%	36.56x
48	Summers	35	0.240%	8.60x
49	Cochrane	34	0.230%	15.12x
50	Forster	34	0.230%	7.14x
51	Easton	33	0.230%	14.99x
52	Kinghorn	33	0.230%	78.72x
53	Redpath	33	0.230%	48.98x
54	Nixon	32	0.220%	7.24x
55	Pattison	31	0.210%	13.42x
56	Gair	30	0.210%	78.06x
57	Logan	30	0.210%	8.72x
58	Metcalf	29	0.200%	9.87x
59	Beattie	28	0.190%	9.01x
60	Darling	28	0.190%	20.14x
61	Fairbairn	28	0.190%	26.12x
62	Hopper	28	0.190%	13.51x
63	Locke	27	0.190%	20.72x
64	Mole	27	0.190%	23.97x
65	Cuthbertson	26	0.180%	23.18x
66	Lumsden	26	0.180%	21.48x
67	Adamson	25	0.170%	6.51x
68	Barnfather	25	0.170%	118.60x
69	Coxon	25	0.170%	22.54x
70	Fail	24	0.170%	199.67x
71	Laverick	24	0.170%	45.31x
72	Urwin	24	0.170%	36.33x
73	Craigs	23	0.160%	268.07x
74	Lyall	23	0.160%	23.24x
75	Nichol	23	0.160%	14.72x
76	Renwick	23	0.160%	23.23x
77	Scougal	23	0.160%	484.21x
78	Thirlwell	23	0.160%	117.47x
79	Arkle	22	0.150%	111.00x
80	Lowes	22	0.150%	26.10x
81	Swan	22	0.150%	5.85x
82	Whitfield	22	0.150%	7.59x
83	Dryden	21	0.140%	24.01x
84	Frazer	21	0.140%	18.68x
85	Hindhaugh	21	0.140%	218.75x
86	Kirkup	21	0.140%	60.02x
87	Lillico	21	0.140%	251.80x
88	Ord	21	0.140%	21.96x
89	Waugh	21	0.140%	10.62x
90	Fish	20	0.140%	7.40x
91	Grieves	20	0.140%	55.02x
92	Leathard	20	0.140%	564.97x
93	Marley	20	0.140%	23.74x
94	Peel	20	0.140%	7.68x
95	Roper	20	0.140%	6.62x
96	Stafford	20	0.140%	6.48x
97	Burrell	19	0.130%	10.05x
98	Jobson	19	0.130%	22.27x
99	Temple	19	0.130%	9.97x
100	Jefferson	18	0.120%	11.42x