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 Mitchell, with 310 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
101	Mitchell	310	0.130%	0.62x
102	Watson	305	0.120%	0.54x
103	Parsons	303	0.120%	1.62x
104	Poole	302	0.120%	2.55x
105	Perkins	300	0.120%	2.72x
106	Kelly	298	0.120%	1.11x
107	Walton	298	0.120%	1.72x
108	Hopkins	293	0.120%	1.98x
109	Day	292	0.120%	1.26x
110	Gilbert	292	0.120%	2.09x
111	Marshall	292	0.120%	0.71x
112	Ball	289	0.120%	1.42x
113	Hudson	280	0.110%	1.39x
114	Spencer	276	0.110%	1.23x
115	Brooks	275	0.110%	1.15x
116	Perks	270	0.110%	10.57x
117	Stanley	270	0.110%	2.86x
118	Westwood	267	0.110%	6.48x
119	Riley	265	0.110%	1.36x
120	Hawkins	263	0.110%	1.48x
121	Cooke	262	0.110%	1.93x
122	Gough	260	0.110%	3.61x
123	Jordan	259	0.110%	2.39x
124	Reeves	259	0.110%	2.58x
125	Barnes	257	0.100%	0.87x
126	Barnett	257	0.100%	2.32x
127	Page	257	0.100%	1.31x
128	Hadley	256	0.100%	7.66x
129	Miller	254	0.100%	0.58x
130	Welch	252	0.100%	2.92x
131	Saunders	251	0.100%	1.11x
132	Stevens	251	0.100%	0.98x
133	Dunn	249	0.100%	1.22x
134	Ashford	248	0.100%	10.21x
135	Chambers	248	0.100%	1.78x
136	Watkins	246	0.100%	1.65x
137	Aston	244	0.100%	6.02x
138	Sutton	244	0.100%	1.56x
139	Neale	243	0.100%	4.17x
140	Newey	242	0.100%	24.17x
141	Gardner	238	0.100%	1.43x
142	Weston	238	0.100%	2.38x
143	Lees	236	0.100%	2.17x
144	Pearson	236	0.100%	0.83x
145	Ingram	234	0.100%	3.12x
146	Pratt	234	0.100%	1.66x
147	Lawrence	232	0.090%	1.46x
148	Wall	231	0.090%	2.69x
149	Birch	230	0.090%	2.29x
150	Haynes	228	0.090%	2.60x
151	Richardson	228	0.090%	0.55x
152	Harvey	227	0.090%	0.87x
153	Pearce	226	0.090%	1.00x
154	Hanson	225	0.090%	2.84x
155	Bishop	223	0.090%	1.30x
156	Potter	223	0.090%	1.40x
157	Newton	222	0.090%	1.18x
158	Gibson	221	0.090%	0.74x
159	Newman	221	0.090%	1.21x
160	Wilkins	221	0.090%	2.04x
161	Holmes	219	0.090%	0.73x
162	Howell	216	0.090%	2.09x
163	Glover	215	0.090%	2.05x
164	Harding	210	0.090%	1.18x
165	Barton	209	0.090%	1.58x
166	Jenkins	209	0.090%	0.72x
167	Osborne	209	0.090%	1.78x
168	Partridge	208	0.080%	3.24x
169	Hayes	205	0.080%	1.34x
170	Holland	205	0.080%	1.17x
171	Murphy	203	0.080%	1.03x
172	Gibbs	202	0.080%	1.67x
173	Gibbons	201	0.080%	2.55x
174	Watts	201	0.080%	0.98x
175	Burns	200	0.080%	1.21x
176	Hewitt	199	0.080%	1.66x
177	Fox	198	0.080%	0.87x
178	West	198	0.080%	0.84x
179	Groves	197	0.080%	2.85x
180	Hart	196	0.080%	0.94x
181	Simpson	196	0.080%	0.46x
182	Atkins	195	0.080%	2.12x
183	Cole	195	0.080%	0.87x
184	Parry	195	0.080%	1.04x
185	Pitt	195	0.080%	3.72x
186	Chapman	194	0.080%	0.56x
187	Millward	194	0.080%	7.04x
188	Pritchard	194	0.080%	1.47x
189	Barker	192	0.080%	0.60x
190	Bryan	191	0.080%	3.13x
191	Hemming	191	0.080%	8.79x
192	Read	191	0.080%	1.21x
193	Warner	191	0.080%	2.13x
194	Porter	189	0.080%	1.03x
195	Fellows	188	0.080%	5.66x
196	Greaves	188	0.080%	2.61x
197	Vale	188	0.080%	10.72x
198	Deakin	187	0.080%	5.51x
199	Neal	182	0.070%	2.51x
200	Wells	181	0.070%	0.89x