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 Oxford, with 32 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
1201	Oxford	32	0.010%	3.77x
1202	Peck	32	0.010%	0.77x
1203	Pegg	32	0.010%	1.33x
1204	Rayner	32	0.010%	0.52x
1205	Robottom	32	0.010%	20.12x
1206	Sherwood	32	0.010%	1.02x
1207	Summer	32	0.010%	5.68x
1208	Tanner	32	0.010%	0.58x
1209	Tew	32	0.010%	2.97x
1210	Usher	32	0.010%	1.18x
1211	Wagstaff	32	0.010%	1.05x
1212	Walford	32	0.010%	2.12x
1213	Wharton	32	0.010%	0.93x
1214	Workman	32	0.010%	1.98x
1215	Anstey	31	0.010%	4.42x
1216	Bach	31	0.010%	11.39x
1217	Banner	31	0.010%	2.31x
1218	Barr	31	0.010%	0.52x
1219	Bedworth	31	0.010%	22.37x
1220	Bent	31	0.010%	1.73x
1221	Blunt	31	0.010%	1.56x
1222	Cheslin	31	0.010%	80.48x
1223	Cobley	31	0.010%	3.45x
1224	Crockett	31	0.010%	2.68x
1225	Dodwell	31	0.010%	7.80x
1226	Drinkwater	31	0.010%	1.28x
1227	Flemming	31	0.010%	3.14x
1228	Grimes	31	0.010%	1.09x
1229	Heritage	31	0.010%	3.37x
1230	Hewett	31	0.010%	1.09x
1231	Hewlett	31	0.010%	2.02x
1232	Hickin	31	0.010%	13.80x
1233	Hubbard	31	0.010%	0.52x
1234	Hubble	31	0.010%	5.32x
1235	Keeling	31	0.010%	1.45x
1236	Lacy	31	0.010%	1.94x
1237	Lander	31	0.010%	1.84x
1238	Lockley	31	0.010%	3.33x
1239	Low	31	0.010%	0.60x
1240	Maguire	31	0.010%	1.24x
1241	Male	31	0.010%	2.11x
1242	Moon	31	0.010%	0.60x
1243	Morrall	31	0.010%	7.13x
1244	Mullen	31	0.010%	1.32x
1245	Pinder	31	0.010%	1.05x
1246	Poolton	31	0.010%	37.08x
1247	Print	31	0.010%	20.78x
1248	Rodway	31	0.010%	4.02x
1249	Sandbrook	31	0.010%	16.73x
1250	Sault	31	0.010%	22.51x
1251	Showell	31	0.010%	12.40x
1252	Stafford	31	0.010%	0.59x
1253	Stainton	31	0.010%	3.85x
1254	Steventon	31	0.010%	5.18x
1255	Todd	31	0.010%	0.25x
1256	Walls	31	0.010%	1.05x
1257	Ackrill	30	0.010%	17.02x
1258	Bramhall	30	0.010%	3.85x
1259	Bridgwater	30	0.010%	6.43x
1260	Chatfield	30	0.010%	2.53x
1261	Clinton	30	0.010%	3.18x
1262	Clutterbuck	30	0.010%	3.51x
1263	Compton	30	0.010%	1.27x
1264	Cowen	30	0.010%	2.23x
1265	Craddock	30	0.010%	1.45x
1266	Crompton	30	0.010%	0.73x
1267	Crowder	30	0.010%	3.07x
1268	Deacon	30	0.010%	0.72x
1269	Driver	30	0.010%	0.66x
1270	Duckett	30	0.010%	1.91x
1271	Eggington	30	0.010%	15.77x
1272	Fell	30	0.010%	0.87x
1273	Gardiner	30	0.010%	0.43x
1274	Gavin	30	0.010%	2.47x
1275	Glynn	30	0.010%	2.77x
1276	Goffe	30	0.010%	16.48x
1277	Hicken	30	0.010%	9.41x
1278	Higgitt	30	0.010%	34.52x
1279	Hills	30	0.010%	0.44x
1280	Hodgett	30	0.010%	13.45x
1281	Howells	30	0.010%	0.48x
1282	Jesson	30	0.010%	5.54x
1283	Judd	30	0.010%	0.94x
1284	Ling	30	0.010%	1.29x
1285	Littlehales	30	0.010%	10.61x
1286	Longmore	30	0.010%	4.99x
1287	Lorton	30	0.010%	28.59x
1288	Machin	30	0.010%	1.22x
1289	Malpas	30	0.010%	4.35x
1290	Mantle	30	0.010%	2.34x
1291	Moor	30	0.010%	0.87x
1292	Newsome	30	0.010%	1.70x
1293	Noble	30	0.010%	0.29x
1294	Pears	30	0.010%	2.66x
1295	Pinson	30	0.010%	8.39x
1296	Potts	30	0.010%	0.37x
1297	Powis	30	0.010%	3.20x
1298	Ravenhall	30	0.010%	33.26x
1299	Sargant	30	0.010%	8.01x
1300	Sayer	30	0.010%	0.93x