1881 census place

Birkenhead surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Birkenhead, Cheshire 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

2,432 surnames are listed for Birkenhead, Cheshire, covering 29,780 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Jones, with 1,659 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Birkenhead

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	Jones	1,659	3.23%	2.85x
2	Williams	876	1.70%	2.37x
3	Davies	686	1.33%	2.62x
4	Hughes	621	1.21%	4.31x
5	Roberts	524	1.02%	2.71x
6	Evans	349	0.680%	1.55x
7	Edwards	297	0.580%	2.07x
8	Murphy	268	0.520%	6.53x
9	Thomas	264	0.510%	1.24x
10	Kelly	249	0.480%	4.42x
11	Griffiths	233	0.450%	2.77x
12	Wilson	229	0.450%	0.97x
13	Bennett	218	0.420%	2.58x
14	Lewis	207	0.400%	1.53x
15	Johnson	205	0.400%	1.19x
16	Ellis	195	0.380%	2.61x
17	Thompson	185	0.360%	1.20x
18	Morris	183	0.360%	1.60x
19	Green	171	0.330%	1.18x
20	Moore	168	0.330%	1.63x
21	Burns	167	0.320%	4.84x
22	Owens	165	0.320%	6.46x
23	Harrison	163	0.320%	1.43x
24	Price	152	0.300%	1.69x
25	Parry	143	0.280%	3.66x
26	Lloyd	138	0.270%	2.30x
27	Murray	138	0.270%	2.16x
28	Martin	125	0.240%	0.99x
29	Doyle	119	0.230%	9.51x
30	Dodd	106	0.210%	5.07x
31	Owen	104	0.200%	1.70x
32	Phillips	101	0.200%	1.10x
33	Miller	100	0.190%	1.09x
34	Lee	96	0.190%	1.14x
35	Byrne	87	0.170%	12.13x
36	Graham	83	0.160%	1.41x
37	Cavanagh	78	0.150%	20.12x
38	Kennedy	77	0.150%	2.48x
39	Reid	77	0.150%	1.43x
40	Adams	76	0.150%	1.00x
41	Hunt	76	0.150%	1.11x
42	Woods	75	0.150%	2.31x
43	Gouldson	73	0.140%	244.39x
44	Platt	73	0.140%	5.36x
45	Dawson	72	0.140%	1.27x
46	Dixon	70	0.140%	1.24x
47	Jordan	69	0.130%	3.04x
48	Connor	68	0.130%	4.48x
49	Ryan	68	0.130%	4.27x
50	Nolan	67	0.130%	9.56x
51	Kerr	66	0.130%	2.35x
52	Matthews	66	0.130%	1.47x
53	Reynolds	66	0.130%	1.48x
54	Dunn	64	0.120%	1.50x
55	Donnelly	62	0.120%	9.58x
56	Glover	61	0.120%	2.78x
57	Maddocks	61	0.120%	19.43x
58	Pritchard	61	0.120%	2.20x
59	Wynne	60	0.120%	12.11x
60	Dooley	59	0.110%	18.62x
61	Sherlock	59	0.110%	17.04x
62	Weston	59	0.110%	2.81x
63	Hayes	58	0.110%	1.81x
64	Tomlinson	58	0.110%	2.45x
65	Hogan	57	0.110%	11.04x
66	Pugh	57	0.110%	2.90x
67	Edge	56	0.110%	6.32x
68	Ferguson	56	0.110%	1.54x
69	Garner	56	0.110%	3.45x
70	Nugent	56	0.110%	20.56x
71	Cookson	55	0.110%	9.07x
72	Dean	54	0.110%	1.51x
73	Wallace	54	0.110%	1.53x
74	Barlow	53	0.100%	1.91x
75	Cottrell	51	0.100%	11.14x
76	Griffith	51	0.100%	3.05x
77	Lacey	51	0.100%	5.38x
78	Walsh	51	0.100%	1.86x
79	Farrell	50	0.100%	5.13x
80	Boyd	49	0.100%	2.72x
81	Higgins	49	0.100%	1.89x
82	Lea	49	0.100%	4.83x
83	Wharton	49	0.100%	6.80x
84	Carroll	48	0.090%	4.65x
85	Hale	48	0.090%	2.60x
86	Mutch	48	0.090%	20.92x
87	Bird	47	0.090%	1.20x
88	Rimmer	47	0.090%	5.72x
89	Bellis	46	0.090%	15.75x
90	Brady	46	0.090%	5.05x
91	Quinn	46	0.090%	4.68x
92	Welsh	46	0.090%	2.26x
93	Conway	45	0.090%	4.67x
94	Croft	45	0.090%	3.71x
95	Kendrick	45	0.090%	9.09x
96	Prince	44	0.090%	3.79x
97	Wild	44	0.090%	2.10x
98	Patterson	43	0.080%	2.40x
99	Savage	43	0.080%	2.18x
100	Barnett	42	0.080%	1.81x