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 Manison, with 28 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
1401	Manison	28	0.010%	71.17x
1402	Mayfield	28	0.010%	4.45x
1403	Meadows	28	0.010%	0.82x
1404	Newbold	28	0.010%	1.56x
1405	Oldaker	28	0.010%	21.62x
1406	Pearman	28	0.010%	2.38x
1407	Portman	28	0.010%	6.26x
1408	Rock	28	0.010%	2.01x
1409	Rouse	28	0.010%	0.80x
1410	Sankey	28	0.010%	2.75x
1411	Smitten	28	0.010%	28.00x
1412	Stiles	28	0.010%	2.06x
1413	Stoddard	28	0.010%	6.93x
1414	Titmus	28	0.010%	10.77x
1415	Trickett	28	0.010%	2.63x
1416	Watkinson	28	0.010%	0.97x
1417	While	28	0.010%	10.38x
1418	Wiggins	28	0.010%	1.06x
1419	Willmore	28	0.010%	6.26x
1420	Yapp	28	0.010%	5.83x
1421	Ainge	27	0.010%	8.07x
1422	Anthony	27	0.010%	0.95x
1423	Banford	27	0.010%	12.57x
1424	Boston	27	0.010%	2.40x
1425	Burr	27	0.010%	1.37x
1426	Caddick	27	0.010%	3.17x
1427	Cane	27	0.010%	1.61x
1428	Cawley	27	0.010%	2.08x
1429	Copson	27	0.010%	4.56x
1430	Crowe	27	0.010%	1.10x
1431	Denton	27	0.010%	0.60x
1432	Duke	27	0.010%	0.95x
1433	Duley	27	0.010%	15.61x
1434	Elwell	27	0.010%	3.86x
1435	Fearn	27	0.010%	1.47x
1436	Fitzgerald	27	0.010%	0.63x
1437	Fowkes	27	0.010%	3.68x
1438	Grimmett	27	0.010%	9.95x
1439	Halford	27	0.010%	1.48x
1440	Harmer	27	0.010%	1.11x
1441	Hayden	27	0.010%	1.41x
1442	Haydon	27	0.010%	1.76x
1443	Head	27	0.010%	0.45x
1444	Hedges	27	0.010%	0.96x
1445	Hignell	27	0.010%	15.99x
1446	Job	27	0.010%	3.64x
1447	Kitchen	27	0.010%	0.65x
1448	Kite	27	0.010%	1.93x
1449	Lemon	27	0.010%	1.51x
1450	Lewin	27	0.010%	1.36x
1451	Ollis	27	0.010%	12.97x
1452	Osbourne	27	0.010%	2.99x
1453	Parsonage	27	0.010%	4.34x
1454	Ramsden	27	0.010%	0.60x
1455	Ranford	27	0.010%	19.04x
1456	Salmon	27	0.010%	0.48x
1457	Scragg	27	0.010%	3.39x
1458	Sharpe	27	0.010%	0.37x
1459	Shelly	27	0.010%	4.72x
1460	Simkiss	27	0.010%	20.08x
1461	Skipp	27	0.010%	7.30x
1462	Stirk	27	0.010%	5.85x
1463	Troman	27	0.010%	18.20x
1464	Tullett	27	0.010%	5.26x
1465	Waterhouse	27	0.010%	0.72x
1466	Whelan	27	0.010%	1.62x
1467	Witcomb	27	0.010%	13.12x
1468	Wort	27	0.010%	6.39x
1469	Wragg	27	0.010%	1.19x
1470	Arnott	26	0.010%	1.26x
1471	Astle	26	0.010%	3.26x
1472	Baynham	26	0.010%	5.64x
1473	Beet	26	0.010%	7.46x
1474	Bolus	26	0.010%	19.46x
1475	Bonehill	26	0.010%	10.68x
1476	Brownhill	26	0.010%	3.02x
1477	Bubb	26	0.010%	4.06x
1478	Burridge	26	0.010%	1.56x
1479	Buswell	26	0.010%	3.61x
1480	Carver	26	0.010%	1.17x
1481	Clissold	26	0.010%	7.27x
1482	Creed	26	0.010%	1.90x
1483	Curry	26	0.010%	0.74x
1484	Daley	26	0.010%	0.90x
1485	Dicks	26	0.010%	2.17x
1486	Galvin	26	0.010%	4.92x
1487	Greathead	26	0.010%	7.05x
1488	Grey	26	0.010%	0.49x
1489	Hilton	26	0.010%	0.31x
1490	Kings	26	0.010%	5.47x
1491	Lake	26	0.010%	0.48x
1492	Large	26	0.010%	1.03x
1493	Light	26	0.010%	1.15x
1494	Meddings	26	0.010%	12.10x
1495	Montgomery	26	0.010%	0.67x
1496	Mosley	26	0.010%	1.12x
1497	Newby	26	0.010%	1.06x
1498	Obrian	26	0.010%	3.23x
1499	Oldham	26	0.010%	0.60x
1500	Pitchford	26	0.010%	3.32x