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 Burke, with 42 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
101	Burke	42	0.080%	2.78x
102	Halpin	42	0.080%	45.65x
103	Johnstone	42	0.080%	1.81x
104	Langley	42	0.080%	3.72x
105	Makin	42	0.080%	9.51x
106	Nelson	42	0.080%	1.69x
107	Pierce	42	0.080%	5.56x
108	Preston	42	0.080%	1.64x
109	Sutton	42	0.080%	1.28x
110	Waring	42	0.080%	6.50x
111	Rice	41	0.080%	2.57x
112	Gerrard	40	0.080%	6.09x
113	Morton	40	0.080%	1.46x
114	Read	40	0.080%	1.21x
115	Ashton	39	0.080%	1.55x
116	Bowen	39	0.080%	1.83x
117	Fitzpatrick	39	0.080%	5.18x
118	Scholes	39	0.080%	6.54x
119	Wainwright	39	0.080%	3.59x
120	Curtis	38	0.070%	1.30x
121	Douglas	38	0.070%	1.53x
122	Foulkes	38	0.070%	7.93x
123	Fulton	38	0.070%	5.86x
124	Forster	37	0.070%	2.20x
125	Irving	37	0.070%	3.23x
126	Malone	37	0.070%	8.99x
127	Atherton	36	0.070%	3.90x
128	Beattie	35	0.070%	3.18x
129	Bradshaw	35	0.070%	1.66x
130	Halewood	35	0.070%	72.31x
131	Kelley	35	0.070%	5.86x
132	Moran	35	0.070%	3.72x
133	Quigley	35	0.070%	13.29x
134	Vaughan	35	0.070%	2.00x
135	Casey	34	0.070%	4.49x
136	Cowan	34	0.070%	3.24x
137	Doherty	34	0.070%	8.10x
138	Hay	34	0.070%	1.80x
139	Herbert	34	0.070%	1.77x
140	Ingram	34	0.070%	2.17x
141	Myers	34	0.070%	2.54x
142	Brassey	33	0.060%	103.38x
143	Dutton	33	0.060%	2.84x
144	Lawton	33	0.060%	2.49x
145	Ohare	33	0.060%	26.16x
146	Todd	33	0.060%	1.26x
147	Flinn	32	0.060%	10.31x
148	Healey	32	0.060%	3.81x
149	Manning	32	0.060%	1.96x
150	Sadler	32	0.060%	2.64x
151	Stanley	32	0.060%	1.62x
152	Carey	31	0.060%	3.20x
153	Fogg	31	0.060%	10.38x
154	Foley	31	0.060%	4.79x
155	Gallagher	31	0.060%	3.97x
156	Leonard	31	0.060%	2.78x
157	Lynch	31	0.060%	2.29x
158	Rourke	31	0.060%	12.24x
159	Rowlands	31	0.060%	2.42x
160	Welch	31	0.060%	1.71x
161	Callan	30	0.060%	18.15x
162	Dillon	30	0.060%	5.90x
163	Eaton	30	0.060%	2.08x
164	Gilfoyle	30	0.060%	192.06x
165	Redmond	30	0.060%	15.96x
166	Rushton	30	0.060%	2.83x
167	Barry	29	0.060%	3.12x
168	Boyle	29	0.060%	2.17x
169	Briscoe	29	0.060%	8.78x
170	Doran	29	0.060%	6.79x
171	Manley	29	0.060%	5.04x
172	Mooney	29	0.060%	4.86x
173	Pemberton	29	0.060%	4.44x
174	Reilly	29	0.060%	5.31x
175	Ritchie	29	0.060%	1.63x
176	Sloan	29	0.060%	5.99x
177	Sweeney	29	0.060%	4.21x
178	Toole	29	0.060%	10.44x
179	Bryan	28	0.050%	2.19x
180	Craven	28	0.050%	2.82x
181	Currie	28	0.050%	1.94x
182	Daly	28	0.050%	5.52x
183	Dennis	28	0.050%	1.84x
184	Leyland	28	0.050%	8.91x
185	Maddock	28	0.050%	5.96x
186	Salisbury	28	0.050%	5.48x
187	Upton	28	0.050%	2.86x
188	Worrall	28	0.050%	4.28x
189	Conroy	27	0.050%	7.08x
190	Ellison	27	0.050%	2.49x
191	Forsyth	27	0.050%	2.46x
192	Goat	27	0.050%	143.01x
193	Horan	27	0.050%	17.92x
194	Horton	27	0.050%	1.42x
195	Ireland	27	0.050%	2.26x
196	Kirby	27	0.050%	1.38x
197	Mathews	27	0.050%	1.42x
198	Moffat	27	0.050%	2.90x
199	Churchill	26	0.050%	4.26x
200	Crawley	26	0.050%	3.89x