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 Scrivens, with 30 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
1301	Scrivens	30	0.010%	4.09x
1302	Shephard	30	0.010%	1.27x
1303	Skett	30	0.010%	20.67x
1304	Spittle	30	0.010%	4.29x
1305	Stanier	30	0.010%	9.97x
1306	Wilden	30	0.010%	9.15x
1307	Woodbridge	30	0.010%	2.92x
1308	Akers	29	0.010%	2.43x
1309	Alder	29	0.010%	1.65x
1310	Armfield	29	0.010%	8.59x
1311	Bache	29	0.010%	5.74x
1312	Bant	29	0.010%	14.80x
1313	Beards	29	0.010%	10.43x
1314	Beddows	29	0.010%	6.12x
1315	Bowles	29	0.010%	0.72x
1316	Bratt	29	0.010%	3.40x
1317	Brettell	29	0.010%	8.98x
1318	Burn	29	0.010%	0.88x
1319	Clift	29	0.010%	2.16x
1320	Collingwood	29	0.010%	2.15x
1321	Cork	29	0.010%	1.59x
1322	Crowther	29	0.010%	0.40x
1323	Derry	29	0.010%	2.68x
1324	Devine	29	0.010%	1.19x
1325	Eagles	29	0.010%	4.18x
1326	East	29	0.010%	0.76x
1327	Findon	29	0.010%	17.69x
1328	Fothergill	29	0.010%	2.06x
1329	Franks	29	0.010%	0.95x
1330	Girling	29	0.010%	1.85x
1331	Greenfield	29	0.010%	1.06x
1332	Higginson	29	0.010%	1.18x
1333	Hirons	29	0.010%	3.68x
1334	Humphrey	29	0.010%	0.44x
1335	Jefferson	29	0.010%	1.09x
1336	Jenkinson	29	0.010%	0.67x
1337	Kenney	29	0.010%	2.15x
1338	Kingham	29	0.010%	3.25x
1339	Livingstone	29	0.010%	1.27x
1340	Loftus	29	0.010%	2.17x
1341	Lomas	29	0.010%	0.64x
1342	Lynch	29	0.010%	0.45x
1343	Mather	29	0.010%	0.48x
1344	Mckenzie	29	0.010%	3.53x
1345	Milward	29	0.010%	2.55x
1346	Motteram	29	0.010%	19.12x
1347	New	29	0.010%	1.35x
1348	Niblett	29	0.010%	3.97x
1349	Nickolls	29	0.010%	9.21x
1350	Peel	29	0.010%	0.66x
1351	Perrin	29	0.010%	1.15x
1352	Picken	29	0.010%	2.83x
1353	Podmore	29	0.010%	3.30x
1354	Ratcliff	29	0.010%	1.83x
1355	Rowbotham	29	0.010%	2.41x
1356	Shotton	29	0.010%	3.41x
1357	Solomon	29	0.010%	1.74x
1358	Stretton	29	0.010%	2.61x
1359	Strong	29	0.010%	0.79x
1360	Thorn	29	0.010%	0.79x
1361	Waite	29	0.010%	0.57x
1362	Wareham	29	0.010%	2.11x
1363	Wareing	29	0.010%	1.82x
1364	Whiston	29	0.010%	4.53x
1365	Wildman	29	0.010%	1.93x
1366	Woolf	29	0.010%	3.54x
1367	Arch	28	0.010%	6.21x
1368	Barnwell	28	0.010%	5.65x
1369	Bench	28	0.010%	8.05x
1370	Blackford	28	0.010%	3.17x
1371	Boddington	28	0.010%	4.10x
1372	Booker	28	0.010%	0.95x
1373	Bowkett	28	0.010%	8.13x
1374	Branson	28	0.010%	3.18x
1375	Brett	28	0.010%	0.60x
1376	Bromage	28	0.010%	10.13x
1377	Cadby	28	0.010%	17.08x
1378	Cherrington	28	0.010%	7.47x
1379	Clive	28	0.010%	9.26x
1380	Collings	28	0.010%	0.96x
1381	Dabbs	28	0.010%	5.30x
1382	Edgington	28	0.010%	4.18x
1383	England	28	0.010%	0.55x
1384	Essex	28	0.010%	3.57x
1385	Everitt	28	0.010%	1.36x
1386	Fallon	28	0.010%	3.09x
1387	Faux	28	0.010%	7.81x
1388	Garvey	28	0.010%	3.19x
1389	Glaze	28	0.010%	9.67x
1390	Greening	28	0.010%	2.05x
1391	Groom	28	0.010%	0.81x
1392	Hagan	28	0.010%	2.28x
1393	Howlett	28	0.010%	0.85x
1394	Irving	28	0.010%	0.51x
1395	Izon	28	0.010%	45.54x
1396	Keeley	28	0.010%	2.81x
1397	Lawrance	28	0.010%	1.75x
1398	Leaver	28	0.010%	1.77x
1399	Macdonald	28	0.010%	0.29x
1400	Manders	28	0.010%	5.68x