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 Hodgkins, with 44 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
901	Hodgkins	44	0.020%	3.99x
902	Hussey	44	0.020%	1.78x
903	Leach	44	0.020%	0.43x
904	Painter	44	0.020%	1.31x
905	Parton	44	0.020%	3.29x
906	Reece	44	0.020%	2.05x
907	Rooker	44	0.020%	19.17x
908	Simons	44	0.020%	1.36x
909	Sumner	44	0.020%	1.11x
910	Warden	44	0.020%	2.51x
911	Canning	43	0.020%	2.46x
912	Eustace	43	0.020%	6.25x
913	Fry	43	0.020%	0.55x
914	Gumbley	43	0.020%	31.22x
915	Harborne	43	0.020%	27.18x
916	Kelley	43	0.020%	1.51x
917	Lovett	43	0.020%	1.92x
918	Luckman	43	0.020%	12.06x
919	Lyon	43	0.020%	0.84x
920	Pedley	43	0.020%	3.46x
921	Shipton	43	0.020%	4.23x
922	Sidwell	43	0.020%	6.37x
923	Simms	43	0.020%	1.54x
924	Steadman	43	0.020%	2.85x
925	Whateley	43	0.020%	34.73x
926	Allbutt	42	0.020%	25.11x
927	Barrow	42	0.020%	0.81x
928	Beardsmore	42	0.020%	12.43x
929	Bladon	42	0.020%	9.56x
930	Bowater	42	0.020%	11.70x
931	Buckingham	42	0.020%	1.28x
932	Bunting	42	0.020%	1.53x
933	Cornforth	42	0.020%	7.48x
934	Dee	42	0.020%	5.01x
935	Dyson	42	0.020%	0.53x
936	Finn	42	0.020%	1.87x
937	Grigg	42	0.020%	2.61x
938	Handy	42	0.020%	4.96x
939	Hollis	42	0.020%	1.24x
940	Lakin	42	0.020%	2.92x
941	Maddocks	42	0.020%	2.80x
942	Maybury	42	0.020%	8.34x
943	Milner	42	0.020%	0.75x
944	Mole	42	0.020%	2.20x
945	Neary	42	0.020%	7.88x
946	Peers	42	0.020%	2.93x
947	Pinfield	42	0.020%	19.04x
948	Poyner	42	0.020%	11.64x
949	Rabone	42	0.020%	18.23x
950	Ricketts	42	0.020%	1.76x
951	Sargeant	42	0.020%	2.17x
952	Thursfield	42	0.020%	12.05x
953	Twigg	42	0.020%	2.45x
954	Venables	42	0.020%	2.44x
955	Wiley	42	0.020%	6.99x
956	Allwood	41	0.020%	4.11x
957	Bembridge	41	0.020%	13.63x
958	Bosworth	41	0.020%	2.83x
959	Boucher	41	0.020%	3.17x
960	Burden	41	0.020%	1.30x
961	Burt	41	0.020%	0.70x
962	Causer	41	0.020%	11.16x
963	Darley	41	0.020%	3.92x
964	Dickenson	41	0.020%	1.10x
965	Hewson	41	0.020%	2.05x
966	Hitchman	41	0.020%	5.07x
967	Hoare	41	0.020%	0.86x
968	Ireland	41	0.020%	0.72x
969	Malin	41	0.020%	5.03x
970	Merrick	41	0.020%	2.25x
971	Neville	41	0.020%	1.41x
972	Paget	41	0.020%	3.13x
973	Portlock	41	0.020%	13.23x
974	Standley	41	0.020%	9.82x
975	Sweeney	41	0.020%	1.25x
976	Wakelam	41	0.020%	15.93x
977	Winter	41	0.020%	0.47x
978	Wooley	41	0.020%	2.61x
979	York	41	0.020%	1.26x
980	Albutt	40	0.020%	19.52x
981	Bartlam	40	0.020%	15.11x
982	Boyle	40	0.020%	0.63x
983	Careless	40	0.020%	6.51x
984	Crow	40	0.020%	1.08x
985	Forrester	40	0.020%	1.21x
986	Fryer	40	0.020%	0.88x
987	Greatrex	40	0.020%	13.40x
988	Hough	40	0.020%	0.95x
989	Hutchings	40	0.020%	0.87x
990	Lister	40	0.020%	0.57x
991	Mace	40	0.020%	1.85x
992	Madden	40	0.020%	1.88x
993	Maddox	40	0.020%	3.20x
994	Malley	40	0.020%	5.61x
995	Orchard	40	0.020%	1.53x
996	Parkinson	40	0.020%	0.34x
997	Payton	40	0.020%	4.09x
998	Probert	40	0.020%	2.07x
999	Searle	40	0.020%	0.81x
1000	Tombs	40	0.020%	3.24x