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 Beaumont, with 35 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
1101	Beaumont	35	0.010%	0.48x
1102	Boughton	35	0.010%	3.45x
1103	Brannon	35	0.010%	5.12x
1104	Bridges	35	0.010%	0.90x
1105	Bumford	35	0.010%	16.11x
1106	Chew	35	0.010%	2.80x
1107	Cowell	35	0.010%	1.00x
1108	Cull	35	0.010%	2.86x
1109	Donnelly	35	0.010%	1.13x
1110	Grubb	35	0.010%	2.30x
1111	Humpage	35	0.010%	11.96x
1112	Insley	35	0.010%	9.10x
1113	Margetts	35	0.010%	5.90x
1114	Nixon	35	0.010%	0.47x
1115	Regan	35	0.010%	1.39x
1116	Sheward	35	0.010%	11.12x
1117	Sketchley	35	0.010%	14.18x
1118	Swingler	35	0.010%	7.61x
1119	Tibbetts	35	0.010%	8.77x
1120	Wager	35	0.010%	5.31x
1121	Wardell	35	0.010%	3.59x
1122	Winfield	35	0.010%	1.72x
1123	Alcock	34	0.010%	0.96x
1124	Betteridge	34	0.010%	3.07x
1125	Bowker	34	0.010%	1.42x
1126	Broadway	34	0.010%	6.81x
1127	Burnett	34	0.010%	0.50x
1128	Daniel	34	0.010%	0.63x
1129	Down	34	0.010%	1.15x
1130	Fieldhouse	34	0.010%	2.90x
1131	Flanagan	34	0.010%	1.77x
1132	Flowers	34	0.010%	1.71x
1133	Garbett	34	0.010%	3.55x
1134	Grantham	34	0.010%	2.25x
1135	Guy	34	0.010%	0.63x
1136	Hannon	34	0.010%	8.94x
1137	Hawkeswood	34	0.010%	45.07x
1138	Jeffery	34	0.010%	0.64x
1139	Moody	34	0.010%	0.53x
1140	Noon	34	0.010%	1.93x
1141	Pimm	34	0.010%	7.22x
1142	Probin	34	0.010%	23.70x
1143	Pye	34	0.010%	0.93x
1144	Rathbone	34	0.010%	2.49x
1145	Rigby	34	0.010%	0.48x
1146	Sheffield	34	0.010%	2.64x
1147	Skelding	34	0.010%	8.52x
1148	Snow	34	0.010%	1.02x
1149	Warburton	34	0.010%	0.56x
1150	Winters	34	0.010%	3.27x
1151	Abel	33	0.010%	2.09x
1152	Ansell	33	0.010%	1.16x
1153	Boyce	33	0.010%	0.90x
1154	Brueton	33	0.010%	36.59x
1155	Clement	33	0.010%	1.33x
1156	Croft	33	0.010%	0.57x
1157	Dalley	33	0.010%	5.39x
1158	Dipple	33	0.010%	9.99x
1159	Dukes	33	0.010%	3.64x
1160	Edmunds	33	0.010%	1.03x
1161	Hobbins	33	0.010%	8.21x
1162	Iliffe	33	0.010%	5.64x
1163	Isaacs	33	0.010%	1.56x
1164	Jennens	33	0.010%	31.95x
1165	Joseph	33	0.010%	1.66x
1166	Llewellyn	33	0.010%	0.92x
1167	Marklew	33	0.010%	16.70x
1168	Mayo	33	0.010%	1.75x
1169	Parks	33	0.010%	1.29x
1170	Parr	33	0.010%	0.54x
1171	Pickard	33	0.010%	0.96x
1172	Steele	33	0.010%	0.50x
1173	Thornhill	33	0.010%	2.15x
1174	Tudor	33	0.010%	2.00x
1175	Wakelin	33	0.010%	3.66x
1176	Weeks	33	0.010%	0.63x
1177	Weldon	33	0.010%	3.36x
1178	Weller	33	0.010%	0.93x
1179	Whale	33	0.010%	2.39x
1180	Barnard	32	0.010%	0.53x
1181	Blower	32	0.010%	2.21x
1182	Box	32	0.010%	1.61x
1183	Brook	32	0.010%	0.34x
1184	Budd	32	0.010%	1.03x
1185	Butt	32	0.010%	1.01x
1186	Carrington	32	0.010%	1.24x
1187	Cheadle	32	0.010%	5.58x
1188	Claridge	32	0.010%	2.24x
1189	Corfield	32	0.010%	2.30x
1190	Davison	32	0.010%	0.36x
1191	Dowell	32	0.010%	2.60x
1192	Figures	32	0.010%	51.37x
1193	Gallagher	32	0.010%	0.86x
1194	Hillman	32	0.010%	1.51x
1195	Hollier	32	0.010%	6.59x
1196	Hulme	32	0.010%	0.61x
1197	Johns	32	0.010%	0.50x
1198	Leech	32	0.010%	0.80x
1199	Mackey	32	0.010%	3.42x
1200	Mumford	32	0.010%	1.35x