1881 census place

Birmingham surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Birmingham, Warwickshire 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

7,834 surnames are listed for Birmingham, Warwickshire, covering 214,800 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 4,722 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Birmingham

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	Smith	4,722	1.92%	1.36x
2	Jones	3,523	1.43%	1.27x
3	Taylor	2,252	0.920%	1.43x
4	Davis	1,663	0.680%	3.08x
5	Williams	1,644	0.670%	0.93x
6	Brown	1,354	0.550%	0.84x
7	Evans	1,330	0.540%	1.24x
8	Green	1,168	0.480%	1.69x
9	Baker	1,155	0.470%	2.15x
10	Harris	1,093	0.450%	1.75x
11	Hill	1,033	0.420%	1.65x
12	Price	1,028	0.420%	2.39x
13	Johnson	964	0.390%	1.17x
14	Turner	962	0.390%	1.41x
15	Cooper	954	0.390%	1.60x
16	Hughes	953	0.390%	1.39x
17	Morris	877	0.360%	1.60x
18	Edwards	869	0.350%	1.27x
19	Wright	859	0.350%	1.09x
20	Allen	855	0.350%	1.84x
21	Clarke	845	0.340%	1.70x
22	Jackson	832	0.340%	1.21x
23	Ward	810	0.330%	1.51x
24	Walker	809	0.330%	0.98x
25	Hall	767	0.310%	1.06x
26	Cox	759	0.310%	2.04x
27	Lewis	738	0.300%	1.14x
28	Thompson	734	0.300%	1.00x
29	Roberts	730	0.300%	0.79x
30	Wilson	730	0.300%	0.65x
31	Parker	720	0.290%	1.54x
32	Thomas	719	0.290%	0.71x
33	Wood	703	0.290%	0.90x
34	Robinson	700	0.290%	0.89x
35	White	670	0.270%	0.85x
36	Mason	667	0.270%	2.02x
37	Phillips	666	0.270%	1.52x
38	Griffiths	660	0.270%	1.64x
39	Harrison	650	0.260%	1.19x
40	Moore	636	0.260%	1.30x
41	Bennett	616	0.250%	1.53x
42	Clark	607	0.250%	0.82x
43	Richards	604	0.250%	1.63x
44	Powell	582	0.240%	1.90x
45	Cook	557	0.230%	1.14x
46	Davies	556	0.230%	0.45x
47	Adams	550	0.220%	1.52x
48	Hunt	549	0.220%	1.68x
49	Webb	544	0.220%	1.63x
50	Martin	535	0.220%	0.88x
51	Collins	531	0.220%	1.51x
52	Palmer	521	0.210%	1.80x
53	Bailey	514	0.210%	1.39x
54	Stokes	480	0.200%	4.63x
55	Shaw	478	0.190%	1.06x
56	Lloyd	476	0.190%	1.66x
57	Horton	471	0.190%	5.17x
58	Butler	463	0.190%	1.93x
59	Bird	438	0.180%	2.33x
60	Lowe	432	0.180%	2.35x
61	King	423	0.170%	0.79x
62	Rogers	415	0.170%	1.30x
63	Fletcher	414	0.170%	1.48x
64	Whitehouse	410	0.170%	6.42x
65	Woodward	410	0.170%	3.39x
66	Fisher	409	0.170%	1.42x
67	Nicholls	405	0.160%	3.16x
68	Lee	400	0.160%	1.00x
69	Scott	398	0.160%	0.64x
70	Yates	394	0.160%	2.33x
71	Field	387	0.160%	3.17x
72	Lane	387	0.160%	2.29x
73	Carter	384	0.160%	0.93x
74	Bayliss	383	0.160%	12.33x
75	Jennings	379	0.150%	3.04x
76	Ellis	378	0.150%	1.06x
77	Mills	377	0.150%	1.18x
78	Russell	368	0.150%	1.23x
79	Hands	360	0.150%	14.62x
80	Knight	357	0.150%	1.18x
81	Harper	356	0.150%	2.26x
82	Wheeler	355	0.140%	2.39x
83	Payne	353	0.140%	1.60x
84	Bates	352	0.140%	2.25x
85	Foster	347	0.140%	1.06x
86	Rose	342	0.140%	1.88x
87	Brookes	336	0.140%	5.83x
88	Reynolds	336	0.140%	1.58x
89	Owen	332	0.140%	1.14x
90	Young	332	0.140%	0.63x
91	Wilkes	324	0.130%	7.61x
92	Matthews	322	0.130%	1.50x
93	Freeman	320	0.130%	2.04x
94	Parkes	320	0.130%	6.36x
95	Andrews	319	0.130%	1.36x
96	Ford	319	0.130%	1.33x
97	Bradley	315	0.130%	1.60x
98	Burton	315	0.130%	1.51x
99	Heath	313	0.130%	2.57x
100	Griffin	312	0.130%	2.70x